Herbert Hoover Quotes

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

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.

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

Sure we won the war, but the peace we’re losing badly.

None of the Americans I spoke to want to nominate their sons for the Unknown Soldier.

War is about strategic agendas and epic battles that define nations and shape history. War is about courage and heroism, but it is also about pain and suffering and sorrow and tragedy

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

Americans have learned that it is harder to end wars than it is to begin them

The victories of peace are great but the victories of war are greater. No merchant, no banker, no railroad magnate, no inventor of improved industrial processes, can do for any nation what can be done for it by its great fighting men..

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

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

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.