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:
“We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.”
—Harriet Tubman (1821–1913)
“It is commonly said ... that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humour, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)