Conqueror Quotations | Page 2

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]

Gain is deposited in my right hand, victory in my left. Let me become a conqueror of cattle, horses, wealth, and gold!

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout:""No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!""So the lawyers applied For injunction. ""Denied,"" Said the Judge: ""the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction."" --Arpad Singiny

There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The nations conquered and held as a province have, in time, retaliated by destroying the liberty of their conquerors through the corrupting effect of extended patronage and irresponsible power.

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.