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:
“God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)