#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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It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. ↗

— James H. Breasted

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Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests. ↗

— Albert Claude

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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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The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith. ↗

— Ignatius Loyola

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The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. ↗

— James S. McDonnell

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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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