“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
“Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.”
Ludwig von Mises
“If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest”
Thomas Jefferson
“The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.”
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
Napoleon Hill
“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.”
Alfred Adler
