Herbert Hoover War Quotations

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 are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

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.

I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.

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 of such dimensions. There might have been a normal cyclical recession; but, with the usual timing, even that readjustment probably would not have taken place at that particular period, nor would it have been a "Great Depression.