conquest quotes

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

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.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?