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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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