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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.
Author:
Walter Ulbricht
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Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
Author:
Aiden Tozer
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When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.
Author:
Robert Toombs
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No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
Author:
Algernon Sydney
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But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.
Author:
Ezra Stiles
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Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
Author:
Charlotte Smith
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The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
Author:
William Simms
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A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.
Author:
Publius Renatus
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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.
Author:
Plato
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In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
Author:
John Orr
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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
Author:
John Orr
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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
Author:
Albert Nock
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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.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.
Author:
Rob Morrow
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We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women.
Author:
Philip Morrison
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Author:
Ludwig Mises
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Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
Author:
Ludwig Mises
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
Author:
John Mill
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The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.
Author:
Herman Melville
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The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.
Author:
James McDonnell
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
Author:
Walter Martin
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The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
Author:
Ignatius Loyola
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
Author:
Albert Hart
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First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Author:
George Eliot
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
Author:
Carl Doren
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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.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.
Author:
Moshe Dayan
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It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.
Author:
James Breasted
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Author:
James Baldwin
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Author:
Walter Bagehot
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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Author:
Alfred Adler
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The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Author:
Alfred Adler
