"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
— Misquotations

January 1, 1970

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A quote allegedly made by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, first used in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora! and again in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor. While this quote may have encapsulated his sentiments regarding the attack, there is no printed evidence to prove Yamamoto made this statement or wrote it down.