Chester W. Nimitz Short Quotes

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Among the Americans who served in Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Of the battle of Iwo Jima

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

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A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep her in paint and powder.

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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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The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

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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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Is the proposed operation likely to succeed?
What might be the consequences of failure?
Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of matériel and supplies?

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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.
On his training for warfare in the Pacific at the Naval War college in 1922

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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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