#Conquest Quotes

“Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France”

“Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?”

“To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.”

“It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.”

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

“From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.”

“In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.”

“I shall be an Attila to Venice.”

“Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.”

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

“Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror”

“If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.”

“Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.”

“Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.”

“To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.”

“The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.”

“To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.”

“To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.”

“Excellent conquerors do not engage.”

“Everything we run away from has power over us;everything we go through,we conquer.”

“Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.”

“I came, I saw, I conquered.”

“He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.”

“War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.”

“It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.”

“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.”

“Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?”

“Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.”

“They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.”

“He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.”

“The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.”

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.”

“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?”

“Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?”

“There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.”

“If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.”

“Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.”

“Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?”