Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

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

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

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.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Error is always more busy than truth.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.