#conquest

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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#contrast #evil #good-and-evil #heaven-and-hell #observation

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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