When you're in command, command.

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.

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

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

Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.

The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.