If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
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.
No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
There is no diplomacy like candor.
Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.