Quotes About Conquest

The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.

The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can't replace that experience with anything.

It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

That's exactly what made America so different, we don't have that colonial aspect of let's go conquer somebody else and make our nation bigger and that's because of the faith element.

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

As Odysseus said, many boys took each other for lovers. But such things were given up as they grew older, unless it was with slaves or hired boys. Our men liked conquest; they did not trust a man who was conquered himself.

I feel like I could eat the world raw." -- Achilles

You know how to win a victory, Hannibal, but not how to use it.

The US military and the CIA got busy working on plans for the conquest of Cuba. And it would be no Mickey Mouse boat operation this time. This time, Fidel Castro and his hairy henchmen would find out what it felt like to have American fighter-bombers drop the fires of hell on their heads three hundred times a day.

No cabe duda de que el panteón druídico incluye gran cantidad de deidades griegas y romanas, lo cual dejó pasmado a César durante su conquista de Britania y la Galia y lo hizo afirmar que aquellas tribus adoraban a Mercurio, Apolo, Marte y Júpiter de una manera similar a la de los países latinos.

You fight to win. Honor, fair play, and nobility are things that you use to wipe your ass with. Second place is in the morgue.

When Charlemagne began his long campaign against the Saxons in 772, he destroyed

Once he had recovered, Eadwine had retaliated by leading an army into Wessex and laying it to waste,

The 'heathen men' who attacked Lindisfarne in the summer of 793 are better known today as the vikings,

a western half comprising Italy, Spain, Gaul and Britain,

and an eastern half that included the Balkans, Greece, Palestine and Egypt.

Britains [sic], up to now afflicted by various disasters and vicissitudes, were widely reduced to the rule of the Saxons.

from Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest, without being selective.

England had been conquered by the Vikings, and its ancient royal family were in exile – in Normandy.

In 844 they sailed up the River Garonne, one of the great arteries of Francia,

and by the end of the fifth century they had conquered three-quarters of the old Roman province,

So miraculous was their victory that the site of battle later became

Not only did the Normans bring with them new forms of architecture and fortifications, new military techniques, a new ruling elite and a new language of government; they also imported a new set of attitudes and morals, which impinged on everything from warfare to politics to religion to law and even the status of the peasantry. More of these changes could be grouped under the heading 'national identity.' The Conquest matters, in short, because it altered what it meant to be English,