Conquest Quotes

334 Conquest quotes by 263 unique authors

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is… — Sydney J. Harris
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest. — Woodrow Wilson
There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is… — Simone Weil
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. — Walter Bagehot
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it. — Charlotte Turner Smith
If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution -… — Rob Morrow
America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our… — Nancy Pearcey
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which… — Ezra Stiles
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are still blessed with… — Ronald Reagan
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest. — Algernon Sidney
There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico… — Eugene McCarthy
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace… — Margaret Sanger
Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should… — Thomas Jefferson
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is… — Will Durant
When an unconquered country is conquered, people are killed... . That the beloved of the Gods finds very pitiful and grievous. ... If anyone does… — Ashoka
London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media. — Peter York
Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance. — Martin E. Marty
In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is… — B. H. Liddell Hart
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and… — Wendell Berry

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