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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
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Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments. -Isoroku Yamamoto
Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times. ― Roy T. Bennett
Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more. - Isoroku Yamamoto
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. - Isoroku Yamamoto
Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. – Bryan Stevenson
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
Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.
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
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
The worst thing a man can be addicted to is comfort. - Unknown
