#conquest

Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him. ↗

— Walter Martin

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The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. ↗

— James S. McDonnell

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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. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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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. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

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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. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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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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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. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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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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