Walt Whitman

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

American Poet

Jean Rostand

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

French Scientist

Joyce Meyer

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

American Author

Benjamin Disraeli

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

British Statesman

Ernst Zundel

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

German Activist

Konrad Adenauer

The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.

German Statesman

Ludwig von Mises

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

Austrian Economist

Virgil

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

Roman Poet

Naftali Bennett

You can't be a conqueror in your own home.

Israeli Politician

Carl von Clausewitz

German General

Often associated with famous historical leaders who expanded territories and power.

Historical Figures

Primarily used in military or violent contexts where force is applied to win control.

Military Connotation

Can imply brutality or oppression, not just victory or success.

Negative Emotion

 The truth of the library’s rise and fall is much more complex. The idea for the library came from Alexander the Great. After establishing himself as a conqueror, the former student of Aristotle turned his attention to building an empire of knowledge headquartered in his namesake city. He died before construction began,

What really happened to...

 Arab merchants, scholars, and conquerors began to spread it into Europe. This was a decimal, or base ten, system, which could represent any number using only ten unique glyphs. The positions of these symbols indicate different powers of ten, starting on the right and increasing as we move left.

A brief history of...

 William consolidated his gains with a huge castle-building campaign and a reorganization of English society. He lived up to his nickname "William the Conqueror" through a massive survey known as the Domesday Book, which recorded the population and ownership

How the Normans changed...

 all around us, all the time. But examine almost any patch of ground, and you're sure to find them there. Their numbers are immense, and their success is unmatched. We may have to accept that it's insects, not us, that are the true conquerors of the planet.

Why are there so many...

 For every great conqueror, there are millions of conquered. Whose stories will survive? And can a leader's historical or cultural signifigance outweigh the deaths they caused along the way? These are the questions that arise when we put history on trial.

History vs. Genghis Khan...

 to become one of history’s greatest conquerors, uniting nearly all of Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran under his rule. But was he a great state builder or a bloodthirsty tyrant? Order! Order! Who do we have on the stand today? Tamer...lane?

History vs. Tamerlane...

 and continue treatment, as I ride out into the battlefield of cancer, asking my rogue cells to behave, I want to be known not as a cancer survivor, but as a cancer conqueror. I present to you an excerpt of that work

Ananda Shankar Jayant...

 They were taking the elites of Kushite society and giving them Egyptian educations. But the Kushites, eventually, became even more devout spiritual followers than their conquerors. Even as the Egyptian empire began

How the Kushites Took...

 stunned the king’s much larger force with guns and horses, neither of which they had seen before. Atahualpa was taken captive and killed about a year later. The Spanish conquerors were awed by the capital of Cuzco.

The rise and fall of the...

 into an empire that would last generations. Assyrians were military innovators and merciless conquerors. During their conquests, they used siege tactics and cruel punishments for those who opposed them,

Conqueror

Historical Figures

Military Connotation

Negative Emotion

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