#conquest

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

— John Boyd Orr

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I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell. ↗

— Tom Holland

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Charlotte Smith

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

— Gloria Steinem

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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. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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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. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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