Quotes About Isoroku Yamamoto

#1. Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!

Isoroku Yamamoto

#2. You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#3. I wonder what Heaven must think of the people down here on this small black speck in the universe that is earth, or of all their talk about the last few years-which are no more than a flash compared with eternity-being 'a time of emergency. It's really ridiculous.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#4. Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Rita Mae Brown

#5. Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#6. Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.

Julian Assange

#7. A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#8. Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#9. Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#10. Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#11. That's more like it. Let's turn this tide!

Rick Riordan

#12. To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

Agatha Christie

#13. The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once ... I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii ...

Isoroku Yamamoto

#14. The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#15. The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants,

Isoroku Yamamoto

#16. I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#17. I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom.

Lindsey Shaw

#18. In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#19. Japan would never invade the United States. We would find a rifle behind every blade of grass.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#20. A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Isoroku Yamamoto