Isoroku Yamamoto Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Isoroku Yamamoto:

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.
~Isoroku Yamamoto


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/isoroku-yamamoto-quotes/#a586b3f6

Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more.
~Isoroku Yamamoto


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/isoroku-yamamoto-quotes/#ada45435

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
~Isoroku Yamamoto


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/isoroku-yamamoto-quotes/#db13b983

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/isoroku-yamamoto-quotes/#d02f8d73

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/isoroku-yamamoto-quotes/#d17e00c4

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/isoroku-yamamoto-quotes/#a0f9a810

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/isoroku-yamamoto-quotes/#4af6befc

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