Herbert Hoover Quotes

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

There is no passion to which the rulers of a people can address themselves with greater [political] effect [than war.]

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

I love politics.

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

War is the trade of Kings.

I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.