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

They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.

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.

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

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.