The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.