Quotes About Conquest

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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

My ultimate goal is to win.

I want to ultimately own the world.

Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

Victory is the main object in war.

To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

Veni vidi vici. (I came I saw I conquered.)

Love is a conquest! Love is war!

So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered.

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.