Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.

Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

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.

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.