Herbert Hoover Quotes

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

Projectile: The final arbiter in international disputes …

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

The end of war is to procure by force the justice which cannot otherwise be obtained.

I am thus far a Quaker, that I would gladly agree with all the world to lay aside the use of arms, and settle matters by negotiation; but unless the whole will, the matter ends, and I take up my musket and thank heaven he has put it in my power.

What I have learned about Afghanistan is that force carries more weight than anything else.

You have to talk to them before you think about bombing them.

… what a fearful waste it is that we have to go killing each other before even a difference of opinion can be settled amongst people of the same nation.

You can’t have peace without a war.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.