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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 Max Lucado Tacitus Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Charlotte Turner Smith Laozi Lyndon B. Johnson Thomas Fuller Jose Ortega y Gasset Alexander the Great Ovid Plautus Robert Conquest John Derbyshire Algernon Sidney Genghis Khan Philip Sidney Roger Bacon Martin E. Marty William Shatner Helen Westley Dinesh D'Souza Gabriel Marcel Mason Cooley William Shakespeare Jared Diamond Akbar
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.
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

10.
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]
Ovid

11.
Conquest has made me what I am,
only conquest can maintain me.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

13.
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
Algernon Sidney

14.
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
William Shakespeare

15.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Thomas Fuller

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

21.
Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.
Napoleon Bonaparte

22.
God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.
Max Lucado

23.
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
Philip Sidney

24.
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
Laozi

25.
The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.
Lyndon B. Johnson

26.
Triumph cannot help being cruel.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

27.
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
John Derbyshire

28.
The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.
Helen Westley

29.
Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.
Mason Cooley