Quote by Richard Hakluyt

No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the…

— Richard Hakluyt

“The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love…

— Karen Blixen

“how a people who had raised such mighty works, could have allowed themselves to be conquered by illiterate barbarians.”

— Ross Laidlaw

“No greater glory, no greater honor, is the lot of man departing than a feeling possessed deep in his heart that the world is…

— Robert Abbott

“it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain…

— Augustine of Hippo

“I do not feat that the barbarians shall invade. I fear that we shall become barbarians before they do.”

— Joseph Chaikinrles MacKenzie

“...if one civilized man were doomed to pass a dozen years amid a race of intractable savages, unless he had power to improve them,…

— Anne Brontë

“What triumph more complete than that of extorting from a conquered foe the admission that he is conquered?”

— Anonymous

“To spare the conquered, and beat down the proud.”

— St Augustine

“Why, conquering May prove as lordly and complete a thing In lifting upward, as in crushing low! And as a vanquished soldier yields his…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

— Thomas Paine

“Still, to slaughter fellow-citizens, to betray friends, to be devoid of honour, pity, and religion, cannot be counted as merits, for these are means…

— Niccolò Machiavelli