Big Stick

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:

    “To my big brother George—the richest man in town.”
    —Frances Goodrich (1891–1984)

    “No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)