Quotes by Isoroku Yamamoto - Page 1

Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Burglar
Hesitates
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People who don't gamble aren't worth talking to.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Gamble
Talking
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A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Men
War
Fighting
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The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Ants
May
Overcoming
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Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Aircraft
Carrier
Japan
Offensive
Regarded
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I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Fear
Done
Resolve
Terrible
Awaken
Fill
Giant
Him
Sleeping
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I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Heartfelt
Regret
Captain
Sunk
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The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Men
Fate
Hands
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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 / Military Commander
Peace
Land
Sea
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To fight the United States is like fighting the whole world. But it has been decided. So I will fight the best I can.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Decided
Fighting
States
United
United States
Whole
Best World Fighting
Best Fight World
Fight
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I'm against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty the Emperor.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Emperor
Majesty
Navy
States
United
United States
Imperial
Officer
Subject
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If we are to have a war with America, we will have no hope of winning unless the U.S. fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Destroyed
No Hope
Winning
Fleet
Hawaiian
Unless
Waters
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It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Disease
Invincible
Operations
Satisfied
Successful
Achieved
Status
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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 / Military Commander
Enemy
Military
Pride
Shame
Sleep
Smitten
Simply
Himself
Scarcely
Sleeping
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I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Air
Desire
Sincerely
Appointed
Attack
Chief
Commander
Fleet
Harbor
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Personally
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Unless more efforts based upon long-range planning are put into military preparations and operations, it will be very hard to win the final victory.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Military
Operations
Planning
Based
Efforts
Preparations
Unless
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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 / Military Commander
America
Detroit
Factories
Fields
Japan
Naval
Oil
Race
Texas
Anyone
Auto
Seen
Lacks
National
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A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Faith
Purpose
Time Always Man
Error
Falls
From Time To Time
Himself
Refuses
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Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Failure
Air
Force
Midway
Responsible
Staff
Anyone
First
Fleet
Mine
Outside
Submarine
Tell
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If a war breaks out with the United States, the navy will have to put all its strength into interceptive operations, so... massive sea-borne supplies might be momentarily interrupted.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Interrupted
Massive
Navy
Operations
Supplies
Breaks
Momentarily
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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 / Military Commander
Running
Success
Great
War
Britain
Great Britain
Military
Months
Six
States
Twelve
United
United States
Victory
Then
After
Success War Great
Wild
Run
First
Win
Expectation
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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 / Military Commander
Home
Blow
Military
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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 / Military Commander
Break
Enough
Hawaii
House
Japan
March
Philippines
San Francisco
Should
States
United
United States
White
White House
Between
Take
Washington
Even
Francisco
Nor
San
Sign
Treaty
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The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten years, would by now be unrivaled in Europe - suggests that the task facing us now is to build up our strength calmly and with circumspection.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Europe
Example
Five
Forbearance
Germany
Great War
Ten
Build
Afforded
Calmly
Facing
Task
Ten Years
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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 / Military Commander
People
Thinking
Years
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As long as tides of war are in our favor, the United States will never stop fighting. As a consequence, the war will continue for several years, during which materiel will be exhausted, vessels and arms will be damaged, and they can be replaced only with great difficulties.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Arms
Consequence
Exhausted
Fighting
Replaced
Tides
Difficulties
Damaged
Favor
Never Stop
Several
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The most important thing we have to do first of all in a war with the U.S., I firmly believe, is to fiercely attack and destroy the U.S. main fleet at the outset of the war so that the morale of the U.S. Navy and her people goes down to such an extent that it cannot be recovered.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Morale
Navy
War Believe People
Attack
Destroy
Extent
Fiercely
Firmly
Important Thing
Main
Most Important Thing
Outset
Recovered
The Most Important
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I entered the navy with the great ambition of becoming a naval soldier and going to war. Either I die from this festering wound - because I refuse to have my arm amputated - or I recover from it and continue being a soldier. I have a one-in-two chance, and I shall bet my life on it!
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Chance
War
Ambition
Becoming
Naval
Refuse
Soldier
Die
Life Great Chance
Amputated
Arm
Bet
Continue
Either
Entered
My Life
Recover
Shall
Wound
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Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Damage
Defense
Disgrace
Enemy
Graphic
Attack
Shot
Capital
Imperial
Plane
Provides
Skies
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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 rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Military
Pride
Sleep
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I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary on our side, but everybody here always persists in facile optimism until the very worst actually happens.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Cost
Preparation
Willingness
Worst
Established
Degree
Facile
Lightly
Necessary
Persists
Positions
Pressed
Relinquish
Sacrifices
View
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Although a precise outlook on the international situation is hard for anyone to make, it is needless to say that now the time has come for the Navy, especially the Combined Fleet, to devote itself seriously to war preparations, training, and operational plans with a firm determination that a conflict with the U.S. and Great Britain is inevitable.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Britain
Conflict
Determination
Firm
Great Britain
Inevitable
International
Navy
Outlook
Plans
Precise
Situation
Training
Although
Time War Great
War Time Great
Combined
Needless
Operational
Preparations
Seriously
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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. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
War
Sacrifice
White
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