1.
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.
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
11.
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must.
[Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]
Ovid
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
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
24.
God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.
Max Lucado
26.
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
Laozi
29.
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
John Derbyshire