I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.