Conquest Quotes

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

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.

My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world.

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

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

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

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.

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

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

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

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

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

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

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

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

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

Conquest is easy. Control is not.

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.

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

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

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

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

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

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

Triumph cannot help being cruel.

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