#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

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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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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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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— Herman Melville

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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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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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