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

January 1, 1970

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Attributed to Isoroku Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor, as portrayed in the film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), written by Larry Forester, Hideo Oguni and Ryuzo Kikushima. Though it is thought that it summarizes Yamamoto's sentiments well, a definite source for this quote has never been provided. William Safire wrote that there is no printed evidence to support the attribution. Safire's Political Dictionary, page 666. For more information see the Wikipedia article "Isoroku Yamamoto's sleepin