Quotes About Conquest

And let's not forget that George Washington "loved the Indians," according to Glenn Beck,126 never mind that he waged an annihilationist war against them. Indeed, Washington wrote to Major General John Sullivan, imploring him to "lay waste" to all Iroquois settlements, so that their lands may not be "merely overrun but destroyed."127

No one has ever stood atop the heavens before. Not you…or I…or even the gods. But the unbearable vacancy of heaven's throne ends now. From now on…I will stand at the top.

War is the ultimate criminal act, an armed robbery writ large. And it's always about greed. It's always a nation that wants something another nation has. And you defeat that nation by recognizing what it wants and denying it to them.

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it ~Tom Clancy

You destroyed it with crosses and diseases and whiskey and guns.

Marathas, Jats and Gujars who robbed and killed any man they could lay their hands on and raped any woman who fell into their clutches. It took me five days to reach Agra. By then Nadir's horde was busy pillaging and looting Delhi. I said to myself: 'No matter a city can be rebuilt and repopulated but no power on earth can put together a heart that has been shattered.' Agra was the city of my heart's ruination. I

As he proceeded his voice became louder, and every word was breathlessly listened to. He spoke of the coming conquest of the group by Kamehameha, whom he designated as the son of Kahekili, and also as the lone one." He also predicted the early extinction of the Kamehameha dynasty, the domination of the white race, the destruction of the temples, and finally the gradual death of the Hawaiian people.

Gentlemen, I like war. Gentlemen, I love war. I like genocide. I like blitzkrieg. I like aggressive war. I like defensive war. I like sieges. I like breaking through. I like withdrawing. I like cleaning up. I like retreating. In moors. On highways. In trenches. In plains. On tundra. In desert. On sea. In sky. In mud. In marshes. I love every aspect of war that takes place on Earth.

Ebenso ist die Eroberung von Provinzen eine andere Maßregel, wenn es nicht auf das Niederwerfen des Gegners abgesehen ist. In jenem Falle wäre die Vernichtung seiner Streitkraft die eigentliche wirksame Handlung und das Einnehmen der Provinzen nur die Folge davon; sie einzunehmen, ehe die Streitkraft zusammengeworfen ist, wäre immer nur als ein notwendiges Übel zu betrachten.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo había sentenciado el destino de nuestro país [España, pero en realidad el mundo]: matarás y matarte han y matarán a quien te matare.

The Allied Forces, on their way across France during 1944 and 1945, had consumed scarce food, vandalized, looted and raped, and their destructiveness and rapaciousness was everywhere compared to that of the German soldiers. (Moorehead, 2011, 306)

1453: FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE You might not think it was a big deal (after all, cities were falling all over the place all of the time)

Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.

Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be

In the East — in Greece and Syria and Egypt — the Romans had conquered countries which had ancient and splendid traditions, and were more civilized than their conquerors.

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

I will take what is mine with fire and blood.

The Iron Throne will go to the man who has the strength to seize it.

I swear to you, I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it.

A dead enemy is a joy forever

Cuando se juega al juego de tronos, solo se puede ganar o morir.

Thrones are won with swords, not quills. Spill blood, not ink.

He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in a bedchamber, poor fool.

A small victory, he thought, but sweet.