« All War Quotes · Herbert Hoover's Page
War Quotes by Herbert Hoover
- There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.
- We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.
- One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.
- In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression…
- Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
- When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we…
- It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
- When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed…
More War Quotes
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare