Quotes About Conquest

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.

We shall then defeat the whole lot of them in one go!

Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

One makes war to win, not because it's just.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world.

Victory is a thing of the will.

In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

Conquer or be conquered.

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

We went there to serve God, and also to get rich.

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

Military men are the scourges of the world.

The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.

Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.