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Big stick ideology, big stick diplomacy, big stick philosophy, or big stick policy was a political approach used by the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. The terms are derived from an aphorism which Roosevelt often said: "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far". [ 1 ]
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1904 commentary on Roosevelt's "big stick" policy. Roosevelt was adept at coining phrases to concisely summarize his policies. "Big stick" was his catch phrase for his hard pushing foreign policy: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
"Big stick" was his catch phrase for his hard pushing foreign policy: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." [124] Roosevelt described his style as "the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis." [125] As practiced by Roosevelt, big stick diplomacy had five ...
"Speak softly and carry a big stick" ... Recalling the Civil War he said America faced a new war, "between the men who possess more than they have earned and the men ...
"Speak softly and carry a big stick" 26th President of the United States. ... but always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump in his first week back in the White House has offered an early preview to his second-term foreign policy approach: Talk loudly and wield a big stick. Over the weekend, Trump threatened to levy massive tariffs on Colombia after the country’s leftist president refused to allow a U.S. military plane returning ...
Roosevelt had at the time summarized his approach to international diplomacy as "Speak softly and carry a big stick", [1] an adage that was engraved on a bronze plaque on Donald Rumsfeld's office desk in the Pentagon and has set the modern precedent. [2]