Big stick may refer to:
- Big Stick ideology, Theodore Roosevelt's diplomatic policy
- Big Stick, West Virginia, a community named for the above
- The nickname of the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61)
- The nickname of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
- Big Stick (band), an alternative music act who scored a minor hit in 1986 with "Drag Racing"
- Big Stick Music, a record label
- The Chinese monk-poet Fenggan; literally translated as "big stick"
Famous quotes containing the words big and/or stick:
“In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)