Quotes About Conquest

There's so much talk about justice, injustice, conquest. Our people are invaded, but I don't think they're conquered.

The people don't like to be conquered, sir, and so they will not be. Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. You will find that is so, sir.

We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerors. Possibly it feels good to these men to be superior to animals, but it does seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it. Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage.

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

Thus it came about that the conquerors grew afraid of the conquered and their nerves wore thin and they shot at shadows in the night.

We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerors. Possibly it feels good to these men to be superior to animals, but it does seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it. Often

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

It is the conquest of this fear that adds half the charm to climbing.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed.)

Carthage must be destroyed.

Anyone who falls into your hands falls to your sword!

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

Like strangler figs choking a banyan, not an explorer, no imperialist, not one of us, in taking what we pleased—in colonizing as the saying is—has been a synonym for mercy.

Ni Alejandro, ni Aníbal, ni siquiera Julio César habían luchado en un terreno tan amplio e inhóspito. Carlomagno habría tenido que duplicar sus victorias para igualar las de Bolívar. Napoleón, en su lucha por construir un imperio, había cubierto menos terreno que Bolívar en su campaña por conquistar la libertad[3].

One foe you must conquer in your quest to cross over to he other side is fear

Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest We want sanitary food, planetary conquest

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

When a white army battles Indians and wins, it is called a great victory, but if they lose it is called a massacre.

No good Indian but a dead Indian