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The war has been variously termed a war of production and a war of machines. Whatever else it is, so far as the United States is concerned, it is a war of logistics.

— Ernest King U.S. Navy at War, 1941-1945: Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy (1946)

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Initiative means freedom to act, but it does not mean freedom to act in an offhand or casual manner.

CINCUS to Vandegrift for his flyers- Many happy returns Sunday and congratulations- Keep knocking them off.

Any man facing a major decision acts, consciously or otherwise, upon the training and beliefs of a lifetime.

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Machines are as nothing without men. Men are as nothing without morale.

Anyone who won't take a chance now and then isn't worth a damn.

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