30 Quotes by Chester W. Nimitz

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

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

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.

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