Conquest Quotes

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

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

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

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

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

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.

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.

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

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

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

We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women.

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

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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.

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

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

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.

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

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

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.

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.