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Triumph cannot help being cruel.
Conquest is easy. Control is not.
I bring the spirit of French conquest.
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.
Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.
Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.
Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.
My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world.
Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.
He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]
It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.
The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour.
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.
Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.