#conquest

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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