Conquest Quotes

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Moving On, Regret, Permanent

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• It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

  Julius Caesar

  War, Pleasure, Treats

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 129-30, Bellum Gallicum, I. 36., 1922.

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• The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

  Albert J. Nock

  States, Testimony, Primitive

  "Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 44), 1935.

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• People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Education, Sea, People

  "Economic Development". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, 1962.

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• To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

  Moliere

  Women, Believe, Heart

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• Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.

  William Shakespeare

  Suggestions, Arms, Constant

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1773). “The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected”, p.384

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• Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

  Victor Hugo

  Progress, Splendid, Daring

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• Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Victory, Well Being

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back

  Seneca the Elder

  Success, Believe, Winning

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• The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

  Jean Genet

  Success, Congratulations, Hero

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Success, Military, Congratulations

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.211, Best Books on

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• The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

  Joseph Conrad

  Peace, Mean, Racism

  Heart of Darkness ch. 1 (1902)

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• Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Race, Religion, Emigration

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• Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Business, Communication, Past

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1840). “The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume”, p.313

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• Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

  Walter Bagehot

  Military, War, Impact

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.75

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• Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

  James A. Champy

  Graduation, Ambition, Roots

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• The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Roots

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• Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Men, Turns

  C. S. Lewis, Michael Ward (2017). “The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward”, p.66, TellerBooks

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• It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

  Goldwin Smith

  Country, Kings, Rome

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Party, Loser

  1597-8 Archbishop ofYork. Henry IV PartTwo, act 4, sc.1, l.315-17.

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• Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

  Robert Conquest

  History, Subjects, Reactionaries

  "Scourge and poet" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2003.

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• Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pregnancy, Self, Defense

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.815, Open Road Media

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• But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

  Ezra Stiles

  Country, Government, Years

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• When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

  Walter Ulbricht

  War, Government, Years

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• Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Sympathy, Relation

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1477, Delphi Classics

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