That Yamamoto quote is a favourite line of right-wing internet posters, often cropping up in their signature along with George Orwell's "we sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf".
Unfortunately, like the Orwell quote, it is completely bogus. The man never said such a thing. Ironically, it was the likelihood that there would have been a rifle behind every blade of grass in Japan that in part led to the decision to drop the A-bomb instead of invading.
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