Nimitz Quotes

#1. Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

Ronald Reagan

#2. Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

Victoria Wood

#3. THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER AS BROTHERS-IN-ARMS. THEY DIED TOGETHER AND NOW THEY SLEEP SIDE BY SIDE. TO THEM WE HAVE A SOLEMN OBLIGATION.

Chester W. Nimitz

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

Chester W. Nimitz

#5. If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin.

Richie Norton

#6. 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.

Chester W. Nimitz

#7. When you're in command, command.

Chester W. Nimitz

#8. A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Chester W. Nimitz

#9. 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.

Chester W. Nimitz

#10. 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.

Chester W. Nimitz

#11. Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.

Chester W. Nimitz

#12. If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

Chester W. Nimitz

#13. Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

#14. What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the South, With golden mottoes in the mouth, To lie down midway on a bloody bed.

Herman Melville

#15. 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.

Chester W. Nimitz

#16. If our message reaches the kitchen tables, we are in good shape.

Tim Scott

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

Chester W. Nimitz

#18. The difficult thing was deciding what to leave off! I just ultimately tried to strike a balance between what was interesting to hard core fans, and what was exciting to first timers and what I liked.

Marco Pirroni

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

Chester Nimitz

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

Chester W. Nimitz

#21. We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

Chester W. Nimitz

#22. 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?

Chester W. Nimitz

#23. If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do an opera, I feel like part of my job is to support that composer, to try and create something that allows the composer to do his or her best work. In movies, it's usually the director.

David Henry Hwang

#24. Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

Chester W. Nimitz

#25. 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.

Chester W. Nimitz

#26. 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.

Chester W. Nimitz

#27. I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

Chester W. Nimitz

#28. We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

Chester W. Nimitz

#29. At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

Bill Jay

#30. 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.

Chester W. Nimitz

#31. It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.

Chester W. Nimitz

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

Chester W. Nimitz

#33. 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.

Chester W. Nimitz

#34. uncommon valor was a common virtue

Chester Nimitz

#35. Fur only looks good on its original owner. Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs.

Tim Howard

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

Chester W. Nimitz

#37. It's just as well," she thought. "If I told them what I really think, they'd shit roses.

K. Ford K.