Conquest Quotes
The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.
Quoted in Plutarch Alexander, 40.2.
Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.
Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.131, Fireship Press
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
Algernon SIDNEY, Isaac Littlebury (1704). “Discourses concerning Government ... Published by I. Littlebury from an original manuscript of the author”, p.20
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.126
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Thomas Fuller (1815). “An introduction to prudence”, p.30
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.448, Modern Library
William Shatner (2000). “Dark Victory”, p.252, Simon and Schuster
God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.
Max Lucado (2008). “Lucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)”, p.144, Thomas Nelson Inc