Conqueror Quote by Thomas Paine

“In casting our eyes over the world, it is extremely easy to distinguish the governments which have arisen out of society, or out of…

— Thomas Paine

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

— Jared Diamond

“They were to be priest-kings in God’s creation as sons of God.”

— Thomas R. Schreiner

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

— Anonymous

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which…

— Rufus Choate

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

— James Clavell

Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.

— Aphra Behn

Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and…

— Wendell Phillips

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests…

— John Wycliffe

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

— Aristotle