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:
“They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.”
—Little Richard (b. 1932)
“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)