PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem…

The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

— John Lancaster Spalding

“You see, that's the thing with conquerors, they cannot stop conquering, for then they would have to start ruling, and my guess is Jarasandh…

— Gourav Mohanty

He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]

— Plautus

Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.

— Corrie Ten Boom

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

— Julius Caesar

The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without…

— Laozi

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

— Augustus

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

— Ernst Zundel

I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their…

— Virginia Woolf

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

— Homer

“Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and therefore, not geniuses. One can understand…

— Otto Weininger

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être…

— Bertrand Russell

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an…

— Joseph Conrad

Excellent conquerors do not engage.

— Laozi