Quotes by Chester W. Nimitz - Page 1

When you're in command, command.
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Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
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Common
Uncommon
Valor
Virtue
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Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.
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Foresight
Hindsight
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We must not again underestimate the Japanese.
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War
Underestimate
World
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If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.
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Ifs
Wave
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No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.
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War
Islands
Iwo Jima
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Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
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Best
Good
Men
Good Man
Helping
Them
Consists
Best Leadership Good
Good Men
Picking
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Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
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War
Marine
Military
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I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.
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Military
Responsibility
Taken
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Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.
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Men
Advice
Enlisted
Juniors
Officers
Junior
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Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.
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Military
Sea
Taken
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A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
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Peace
War
Paint
Powder
Sea
Much
Costs
Referred
She
Ship
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God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
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Courage
God
Hope
Giving Up
Hopeless
God Hope Me
Think
Courage Hope Me
Me
Even
Give
Grant
Up
Right
Though
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It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
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Enemy
Function
Navy
Soil
Carry
Fought
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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.
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War
Enemy
Military
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The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.
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Military
Navy
Weapons
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Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.
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Groups
Luck
Tasks
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They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.
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War
Brother
Sleep
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I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.
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Enough
Loss
Unnecessary
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We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.
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Enemy
Loss
Military
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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.
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Military
Organization
Sailing
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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.
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Japan
Military
Views
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Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
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Failure
Might
Succeed
Supplies
Consequences
Likely
Material
Operation
Proposed
Realm
Terms
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Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.
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Military
Skills
Victory
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The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.
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War
Games
Japan
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That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
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Faith
Adequate
Armament
Defense
Machines
Needs
Readiness
Relax
Defend
Primarily
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By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
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Country
Marine
Military
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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.
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War
Islands
Marine
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When I assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of the Fleet that could come to grips with the Japanese for months to come. It was to the Submarine Force that I looked to carry the load until our great industrial activity could produce the weapons we so sorely needed to carry the war to the enemy. It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.
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War
Enemy
Honor
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