Quotes About Territory

Muslims did not force religious conversion and, except for Egypt, expanded into areas with sparse populations.

The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.

You're aghast at the fact that I'll bring an animal from Cloral or a weapon from Eelong, yet you are quick to bring something that is far more intrusive. You bring ideas, Pendragon! You were raised on Second Earth, and you are all too quick to impose what you feel are the higher morals of that territory on all others. How is that any different from what I have done?

It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.

Any dog, you put him in the corner, no matter if they're vicious or not, they're going to bite back.

In Vietnam, America fought one whose communism was driven by an underlying nationalism, the desire to live free of the West. Whatever one may think of this, here was an enemy that truly wanted to live, that insisted on territory and sovereignty.

The little shit was standing on it like he owned it, wet, sandy paws and all. "Arf, arf!

Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wizard.

technology was unfamiliar territory for me. See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

Without geography you're nowhere.

On March 2, 1699, Iberville arrived at the mouth of the river, where there was fresh water and a strong current. The following day, Shrove Tuesday, they began their travels up the river. Finding a bayou twelve miles upstream, they named it in honor of the holiday, Mardi Gras Bayou, and thus was Mardi Gras introduced to the Louisiana territory

Madness, it became convenient to believe quite early on, came with the territory, on the order of earthquakes.

Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, turquoise, and copper beneath its surface they carved up the territory like children sneaking to the fridge and slicing off a chocolate cake bit by bit: hoping at first that the loss wouldn't be noticed but ultimately not really caring.

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

All I had to do was get old enough and New York would be mine.

Canada: A few acres of snow.

The women of the Woodland tribes wore dresses made of soft deerskin. When Army and trade blankets were introduced in the Indian territory, the women started to use them for their dresses.

At a time when the limits of leadership are being tested in so many places is your time to rule in your own territory.

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

Through prayer you'll not only be able to defend yourself from incoming sniper fire but through Almighty God will be able to push into enemy territory and take . . . stuff . . . back.

Myrnin said softly. And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

Between low water and the flotsam and jetsam of the high-tide mark, land and sea wage a never-ending conflict for possession.

They must also acknowledge that the only sovereign states to have ever existed on that land have been Jewish: the first Jewish state, 1010 (the reign of King David) to 586 BCE; the second Jewish state, 530 BCE to 70 CE (AD); and the third Jewish state, 1948 to the present. No other sovereign state ever existed in the land of Israel.

When the choice before us was the whole of Eretz Israel but no Jewish state or no Jewish state but not the whole of Eretz Israel, we chose a Jewish state.