#conquest

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

#acquisitions #california #compromises #concessions #conquest

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#anyone #away #conquest #hard #her

Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests. ↗

— Albert Claude

#become #carry #conquests #forward #man

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. ↗

— Herman Melville

#love #march #may #mind #provinces

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

— John Boyd Orr

#conquest #defeat #either #empires #fallen

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#government #inconsistent #our #principles

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Charlotte Smith

#compact #conquest #does #neither #posterity

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#conquest #convinced #could #improve #material

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#boys #center #centre #conquest #femininity