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Quote from Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto,


"The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants."


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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (more quotes by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto or books by/about Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto)


(1884-1943) Japanese Naval Marshal General and commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and a student of Harvard University (1919–1921)

Source:

Statement in opposition of the planned construction of the Yamato class battleships, as quoted in Scraps of paper: the disarmament treaties between the world wars (1989) by Harlow A. Hyde

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Military, Power, Resistance, War

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