Peace Quotes by Herbert Hoover

11 Peace quotes by Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover’s eleven short statements on peace echo the pragmatic tone of a former president. They provide a straightforward look at how calm can be pursued in public life.

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Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

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Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

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There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

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One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from…

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The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and…

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. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

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So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won.…

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When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy…

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Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But…

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The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our…

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Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

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The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization,…

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“No one ever listened themselves out of a job.”

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Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

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It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and…

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One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

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Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They…

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You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such…

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“Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in…

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When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when…

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My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere,

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If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on…

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The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of…

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