Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
You annex foreign land, not your own country.
Conquered, we conquer.