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

— Algernon Sidney

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✓Similar Perspectives

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

— Thomas Jefferson

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

— Muqtada al Sadr

People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.

— Norman Finkelstein

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.

— William H. Seward

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

— Bertrand Russell

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

— Cleopatra

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

— Thaddeus Stevens

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Ernst Zundel

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

— Ramsey Clark

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