Quotes About Territory

Wherever the Roman conquers, there he dwells.

the fact that maybe men think if they just name everything, everything'll be okay, the fact that it's like dogs marking their territory

Within a world of free trade and democracy there are no incentives for war and conquest. In such a world it is of no concern whether a nation's sovereignty stretches over a larger or a smaller territory. Its citizens cannot derive any advantage from the annexation of a province. Its territorial problems can be treated without bias and passion; it is not painful to be fair to other people's claims for self-determination.

males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

We will maintain security in the entire Land of Israel.

One could raise a similar set of objections regarding America's alleged theft of Mexican land. Texas used to be part of Mexico but broke off because of tyrannical laws imposed by a Mexican dictator. Texas then opted to join the United States. The Mexican War arose over a border dispute between Texas and Mexico. Mexico lost the war, and ceded the disputed land in a treaty in which the United States paid money and wrote off Mexican debts.

to come to power. Now it must be said that when a major political party basically rejects the outcome of a free election, we are in uncharted territory. This happened in the United States once before, of course, in 1860, when the same party, the Democrats, refused to accept the election of Abraham Lincoln. The result was a bloody civil war.

In 1935, seven years before the Nazis fully implemented the Final Solution, Hitler advocated emigration and ghettoization as interim solutions to the Jewish problem. The Jews, Hitler said, must be "removed from all professions, ghettoized, restricted to a particular territory, where they can wander about, in accordance with their character, while the German people looks in, as one looks at animals in the wild."30

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.

Álvarez de Pineda's

Ya veremos más adelante que la propia organización del Cerebro Humano es un modelo de la Lattice. Pero este modelo todavía no llega a ser idéntico al territorio que quiere representar. Únicamente cuando nos convertimos en la Lattice misma, estaremos en posibilidad de percibir la Realidad tal como existe y tal como es en sí. Esta

His rear guard was destroyed in the passes by the Christian Basques inhabiting that locality. Among the slain was Hruodland, one of Charles's chief friends and lieutenants and the hero of the later Song of Roland. Later in his reign Charles was more successful and established the Spanish March, a strip of land extending as far south of the Pyrenees as the important seaport of Barcelona. Mark or march was the name for a frontier territory.

Newly conquered territory or districts needing to be kept in a state of military preparation for frontier defense, were organized as marks under margraves, or counts of the marks.

the Berbers, who had been assigned by the Arabs the less desirable northern regions of Spain, had rebelled soon after the conquest.

This venture of Fourcade's and Navarre's was a rare phenomenon in France so early in the war. As the historian Julian Jackson observed, "The hackneyed phrase 'he or she joined the Resistance' is entirely inappropriate to 1940–41. Before it could be joined, resistance had to be invented….Resistance was a territory without maps.

The People's Republic of China loses its republican sheen when it comes to territory and turns imperial even if it cannot always get imperious.

Wilson's doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state

you may have what girls you like in the field, but you will bring none home, for only I will hold sway in your halls.

the Self stakes out its own territory within us to assure getting its own way, ordering our world to its likings. It has imbedded assumptions and privileges in our psyche; there is a momentum to its desires, motives, and presence in us. I call this the Self Life.