Quotes About Conquest

History is written by the victor.

The principle of competition is, as Hesiod pointed out long ago, built in the very roots of the world; there is something in the nature of things that calls for a real victory and real defeat. —IRVING BABBITT

Nichts, nichts in der Welt hat so unwiderstehliche Gewalt der Eroberung wie das Gute.

Der Geschlechtstrieb ist das Joch vor dem Triumphwagen der Meduse, an den wir geschirrt sind.

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

The oldest American capital is Santa Fe, founded in 1609, over 150 years before the United States was even born and almost 250 before the United States eventually conquered what's now the Southwest from Mexico.

you know what English is? The result of the efforts of Norman men-at-arms to make dates with Saxon barmaids.

You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. What you waiting for.?

believe long ago had decided it was better to be first in Gaul rather than second in Rome.

In fourteen hundred and ninety-three, Columbus stole all he could see.

Through power we gain victory, and through victory our chains are broken. But power is only a means to an end.

Magister Damask, if I may be so bold as to inquire: what is our eventual goal?" "The goal is to extend my life indefinitely. To conquer death.

Grant said that Shiloh convinced him that the rebellion could be crushed only by complete conquest

Given the advantages of fighting on the defensive in its own territory with interior lines in which stalemate would be victory against a foe who must invade, conquer, occupy, and destroy the capacity to resist, the odds faced by the South were not formidable.

Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.

In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.

Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

You are strong because of what you overcame, brave because of what you defeated, fierce because of what you mastered, and powerful because of what you conquered.

The greatest mountain anyone can conquer is fear.

As long as I win and keep moving forward, I make a statement every time I win.

The man who conquered Ireland could be a match for the man who did not conquer Egypt.

Ruin seize thee, ruthless King!Confusion on thy banners wait,Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wingThey mock the air with idle state.