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

- Algernon Sidney

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

- Charles de Secondat

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

- Charlotte Smith

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

- George Eliot

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

- Herman Melville

When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour.

- Kate Williams

America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.

- Nancy Pearcey

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

- Thomas Fuller

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

- Thomas Jefferson

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

- Thomas Jefferson