Quote by Montesquieu

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

— Algernon Sidney

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

“First, because, in the first case, the right of conquest being in fact no right at all, it could not serve as a foundation…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be”

— George Gordon Byron

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within”

— Will Durant

“One conquers by getting conquered.”

— Mohit K. Misra

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

— Edmund Burke

“...only those who have the will and the power to shoot down their fellow men, are the real rulers in this, as in all…

— Lysander Spooner

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

— Ernst Zundel

“Robert Conquest once announced three laws of politics, the first of which says that everyone is right-wing in the matters he knows about.”

— Roger Scruton

“Govenment is founded on property Property is founded on conquest Conquest is founded on power All power is founded on brain and brawn.”

— Ragnar Redbeard