No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.

The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

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.

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.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

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.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

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

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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.

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.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

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.