Quotes About Conquest

Aborigines, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

This irrascible and implacable brute—this incarnate thunderbolt—this monster of the upper deep, I had seen reposing in the shade of an adjacent tree, dreaming dreams of conquest and glory.

I fought on horseback often enough. Charged small bodies of infantry, broke and pursued them. A noble business, cutting men down as they run, I earned all kinds of praise for it.

No one remembers how the fight was won. I won. No one cares how.

No corpses, no glory.

There's only one kind of good news, and that's dead enemies.

Join the Fleet, travel the galaxy, meet interesting new people and kill them.

De store seire er aldri vunnet i det første slag.

The world belongs to the strong," Harry believed. "It always has and it always will.

Ja! diesem Sinne bin ich ganz ergeben, das ist der Weisheit letzter Schluß: nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das Leben, der täglich sie erobern muß.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

He carefully studies the position that he intends to conquer.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Never be a victim of life; be its conqueror.

The Holy Roman Empire was the Germanic successor of the Roman Empire. It wasn't a state — the Germans would not have their own state until 1871 — so much as a patchwork of German ethnic groups organized by the Catholic Church. Because the Holy Roman Empire was an essentially Catholic construct, Germany had been fatally weakened by the Reformation. The ease with which Napoleon conquered the German principalities was proof of that.

But because it lay between those two countries, first it would be conquered and ruled by the Egyptians, and then the Babylonians would invade, so that the people who lived there were constantly being driven from one place to another. They built themselves towns and fortresses, to no avail. They were still not strong

I believed in a return to Nature once. But how can we return to Nature when we have never been with her? Today, I believe that we must discover Nature. After many conquests we shall attain simplicity. It is our heritage.

Yes, I know, if the American Indians had enforced such a policy none of us pale-faced honkies would be here. But the Indians were foolish, and divided, and failed to keep our WASP ancestors out. They've regretted it ever since.

And it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city [Jericho].

Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day!

His enemies shall lick the dust.

The Norman Conquest was a Good Thing, as from this time onwards England stopped being conquered and thus was able to become top nation.

He went forth conquering, and to conquer.

With the jawbone of an ass… have I slain a thousand men.