Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

A resolute leader who collects ten thousand adventurers about him can do as he pleases. Were the whole world a single Imperium, it would thereby become merely the maximum conceivable field for the exploits of such conquering heroes.

For me, I do not wish to build an empire.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

There be some, that taking pleasure in contemplating their own power in the acts of conquest, which they pursue farther than their security requires

There is no nation on earth that wasn’t built on a conquest.

Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

Gideon woke up ready to conquer the world, and he liked to start that domination with me. How lucky was I?

Everybody wants power and control in their life.

Stern men with empires in their brains.

Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.