Quotes with conquest

Quotes 21 till 27 of 27.

  • Walter Lippmann The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Albert J. Nock 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.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Karl Kraus The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • James Baldwin 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.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • William Gilmore Simms The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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