Quotes on Conquest

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Author: Walter Bagehot

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

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

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Author: Ludwig Mises

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

Author: John Orr

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

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

Author: Charlotte Smith

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Author: Gloria Steinem

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

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

Author: Algernon Sydney

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