Quotes About Conquest

Thus if instead of saying, that in war the weaker have always recourse to negotiation, we should say, that they have always recourse to conquest, the custom, which we have acquired of attributing certain relations to ideas, still follows the words, and makes us immediately perceive the absurdity of that proposition; in the same manner as one particular idea may serve us in reasoning concerning other ideas, however different from it in several circumstances.

O what a disgrace if such a despised and base race, which worships demons, should conquer a people which has the faith of omnipotent God and is made glorious with the name of Christ!

I came, I saw, God conquered.

To whom God will, there be the victory.

The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.

God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.

God is on the side of the winner.

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

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

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Great things are won by great dangers.

It is a great victory that comes without blood.

Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

Only the vanquished remember history.

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

History has been the history of warfare.