#conquest

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. ↗

— George Eliot

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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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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. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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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. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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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. ↗

— James H. Breasted

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

— Algernon Sidney

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First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. ↗

— Jean Genet

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