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

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

They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.

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

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

When you're in command, command.

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.

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

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

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

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

Don’t blame any one, including you. There is something called destiny.

When you see something impossible, this is often because you have a limited imagination!

If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

There the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest.

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.

I'm the best Manning.

There is no greater threat to America than Islam.