Quotes About Conquest

So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

Vae victis [Woe to the conquered]!

Sabes cuál es la lección más importante d ela historia? Que solo la escriben los vencedores. Esa es la lección. El que decide el rumbo de la historia es el que gana.

According to Dio, he promised not to "take any cruel action simply because I have conquered

his small party arrived to find the war over and Caesar victorious.

Wanting to prove himself as a general, he invaded the rest of Gaul (central and northern France and Belgium).

Caesar remarked wryly: "I have often fought for victory, but on this occasion I fought for my life as well.

By 49 B.C., he had added a huge new province to the empire

KILLING FIELDS 43–42 B.C.

Octavian made landfall on Sicily south of Tauromenium and disembarked his troops.

his signet ring bearing the head of Alexander the Great.

Only ten thousand of his men survived the debacle. Humiliatingly, many legionary standards were captured.

Clemency was to be "the new style of conquest.

following him during the years when he won one victory after another over incompetently led Roman legions.

he made no attempt to recover Germania as a Roman province, and the empire was never again to reach beyond the Rhine.

Men in public life did their best to avoid accidental events or actions from being seen as unlucky. On a famous occasion during the civil war, Caesar tripped when disembarking from a ship on the shores of Africa and fell flat on his face. With his talent for improvisation, he spread out his arms and embraced the earth as a symbol of conquest. By quick thinking he turned a terrible omen of failure into one of victory.

Yeah, I miss that feeling of knocking somebody clean out. There's nothing like it when you go into a fight and you just take 'em up out of there with just one punch. It's just the best feeling in the world.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

What did we want with an Empire! It

su petirrojo no se fuera de allí. Le habló casi en un susurro. "¡Bien, me has vencido!", se lo dijo tan

Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him. Francis Parkman

I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

Grief is the price of victory

There will be sadness, Alia intoned. I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies. You will sneer at the past, forgetting what I tell you now: within all differences there is unity.