Quotes About Sleeping giant

The problem with a great democracy like the United States, George Kennan once noted, was that it was almost always like a sleeping giant, impervious to its surroundings until suddenly and belatedly awoken, when it proved so angry about what it discovered that it started lashing out wildly.

Remember what Napoleon said: China is a sleeping giant. When she awakes, the world will tremble.

Agriculture is a sleeping giant. We have so many opportunities for commercial feedlots on reclaimed mine sites, possibilities for taking advantage of our waters, and the chance to solve our forestry issues - it's all right at our fingertips.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. From screenplay: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

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

I look out the window in the morning sometimes, and the sun is rising, and the people are going to work. I look at Washington as being that big, sleeping giant, just stretching and waking up, and going about its business. And to know that I'm working in the capital of the most powerful nation in the world - I feel good about that.

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

China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.