Herbert Hoover Quotes

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulations, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.

I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

I'm glad I never went to war.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Nobody hates a war more than soldiers who have been through it.

My message was one of death for young men. How odd it is to applaud that.

I think if people really listened to what our families who serve go through, we could have a realistic discussion of what it means to send young people to war.

My fascination with war is because my dad was in World War II, and my brother was in Vietnam.

I've been in many wars already.