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. I would ra…

- Isoroku Yamamoto

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

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 …

- Isoroku Yamamoto

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

- Isoroku Yamamoto

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 wa…

- Isoroku Yamamoto

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 Sa…

- Isoroku Yamamoto

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

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

- Isoroku Yamamoto

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…

- Isoroku Yamamoto