25 Quotes by Chester Nimitz

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

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

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.

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

We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

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

The reason we call ships “she” is that it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.