--- title: "4 Conquest Quotes By Thomas Paine" description: "4 Conquest quotes by Thomas Paine. Plus more from Thomas Paine and more Conquest sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ff/thomas-paine-267_acquisition_the-more-acquisitions-the-government-mak_243466.png" --- > [The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-more-acquisitions-the-government-makes-abroad-the-more-taxes-the/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ff/thomas-paine-267_acquisition_the-more-acquisitions-the-government-mak_243466.png) > [Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/death-is-not-the-monarch-for-the-dead-but-of-the-dying-the-moment-he/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d09/thomas-paine-267_conquest_death-is-not-the-monarch-for-the-dead-bu_2284100.png) > [In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/in-a-general-view-there-are-few-conquests-that-repay-the-charge-of/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02c/thomas-paine-267_causes_in-a-general-view-there-are-few-conquest_2568869.jpg) > [It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/it-is-the-madness-of-folly-to-expect-mercy-from-those-who-have/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/thomas-paine-267_compassion_it-is-the-madness-of-folly-to-expect-mer_2933700.png) ## Other authors on Conquest - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conquest/paulo-coelho/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-napoleon-bonaparte-70192.jpg) Napoleon Bonaparte 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conquest/napoleon-bonaparte/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conquest/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [Xavier Durringer 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conquest/xavier-durringer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conquest/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-maria-montessori-63631.jpg) Maria Montessori 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conquest/maria-montessori/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joseph-conrad-53297.jpg) Joseph Conrad 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conquest/joseph-conrad/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edward-gibbon-31792.jpg) Edward Gibbon 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conquest/edward-gibbon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bertrand-russell-17477.jpg) Bertrand Russell 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conquest/bertrand-russell/) ## More by Thomas Paine > [“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/no-man-is-prejudiced-in-favour-of-a-thing-knowing-it-to-be-wrong-he/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-laws-of-every-country-must-be-analogous-to-some-common-principle/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-book-called-the-bible-has-been-voted-by-men-and-decreed-by-human/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/to-argue-with-a-person-who-has-renounced-the-use-of-reason-is-like/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/one-would-think-that-a-system-loaded-with-such-gross-and-vulgar/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/commerce-diminishes-the-spirit-both-of-patriotism-and-military-defence/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/what-is-it-the-bible-teaches-us-raping-cruelty-and-murder-what-is-it/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/those-who-expect-to-reap-the-blessings-of-freedom-must-like-men/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/it-has-been-the-practice-of-all-christian-commentators-on-the-bible/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/but-there-are-times-when-men-have-serious-thoughts-and-it-is-at-such/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Wisdom is not the purchase of a day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/wisdom-is-not-the-purchase-of-a-day/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/our-citizenship-in-the-united-states-is-our-national-character-our/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/suspicion-is-the-companion-of-mean-souls-and-the-bane-of-all-good/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation, requires a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/to-pass-from-the-extremes-of-danger-to-safety-from-the-tumult-of-war/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) > [What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/what-more-does-man-want-to-know-than-that-the-hand-or-power-that-made/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conquest/thomas-paine/#itemlist", "name": "4 Conquest Quotes By Thomas Paine", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Paine" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-more-acquisitions-the-government-makes-abroad-the-more-taxes-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ff/thomas-paine-267_acquisition_the-more-acquisitions-the-government-mak_243466.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ff/thomas-paine-267_acquisition_the-more-acquisitions-the-government-mak_243466.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ff/thomas-paine-267_acquisition_the-more-acquisitions-the-government-mak_243466.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.” — Thomas Paine", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. 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