Top 31 War Of Conquest Quotes
#1. Vietnam had never been a true civil war. It was a war of conquest, initiated and perpetuated for more than two decades by the United States, fueled by presidential secrecy and lies. It was no catastrophic accident. As Ellsberg wrote, it was simply "a crime.
Andy Greenberg
#2. For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South ...
Arthur Fremantle
#3. The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.
John Keegan
#5. The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.
Jared Diamond
#6. Love is a conquest. Love is a war. That is all it is.
Marissa Meyer
#8. Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. ... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
Oliver Stone
#9. The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.
Robert Conquest
#10. Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
John Derbyshire
#11. In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ...
Jane Porter
#12. The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
Charles De Secondat
#13. No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.
Alice Corbin Henderson
#14. The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice ... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
Norman Cousins
#15. To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.
Laozi
#16. Take care, father," said Bulloch gently, "that what you call murder and robbery may not really be war and conquest, those sacred foundations of empires, those sources of all human virtues and all human greatness.
Anatole France
#17. The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait ...
George H. W. Bush
#18. Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.
Nadege Richards
#19. The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#20. When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and not
campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.
Steven Pressfield
#21. That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
William Shakespeare
#22. I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.
Pat Barker
#23. When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.
Walter Ulbricht
#24. War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
Tacitus
#26. When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato
#27. We can borrow from the moneylenders in York.'
'We burned York two winters ago,' Drogo pointed out.
Robert Lyndon
#28. We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
#30. War.
Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror.
David Gemmell
#31. Love is a conquest. Love is a war.
Here is what I think of love.
Marissa Meyer
