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Conquest Quotes

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The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.
Alexander the Great

The ultimate aim of conquest is to stay clear of replicating the defeated.
Authors on Conquest Quotes: Napoleon Bonaparte Roger Bacon Martin E. Marty William Shatner Dinesh D'Souza Helen Westley Gabriel Marcel Mason Cooley William Shakespeare Akbar Jared Diamond Max Lucado Tacitus Charlotte Turner Smith Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Laozi Lyndon B. Johnson Thomas Fuller Alexander the Great Jose Ortega y Gasset Plautus Ovid Robert Conquest Algernon Sidney John Derbyshire Philip Sidney Genghis Khan
2.
A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.
Akbar

A ruler should be continually striving to expand their dominion, lest neighbouring nations rebel against them.
3.
My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world.
Genghis Khan

4.
The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
Napoleon Bonaparte

5.
... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
Gabriel Marcel

6.
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
Roger Bacon

7.
Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.
Robert Conquest

8.
What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism.
Dinesh D'Souza

9.
Conquest has made me what I am,
only conquest can maintain me.
Napoleon Bonaparte

10.
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

11.
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]
Ovid

12.
Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.
Martin E. Marty

13.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Thomas Fuller

14.
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
Algernon Sidney

15.
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
William Shakespeare

16.
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
Tacitus

17.
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
Charlotte Turner Smith

18.
Conquest is easy. Control is not.
William Shatner

19.
Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.
Jared Diamond

20.
The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.
Helen Westley

21.
Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.
Mason Cooley

22.
He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]
Plautus

23.
Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.
Napoleon Bonaparte

24.
God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.
Max Lucado

25.
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
Philip Sidney

26.
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
Laozi

27.
The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.
Lyndon B. Johnson

28.
Triumph cannot help being cruel.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

29.
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
John Derbyshire