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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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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.


James A. Baldwin


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


George Eliot


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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.


Joseph Conrad


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


Ludwig von Mises


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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.


Goldwin Smith


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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.


Ralph Waldo Emerson


#battle #conquest #honest #life #living

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.


Ninon de L'Enclos


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