conquer quotes

There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.

- Barnard Elliot Bee
Of General Thomas  J  Jackson, whose resistance stopped the Union advance at Bull Run, 21  Jul. Quoted in B Perley Poore Perley's Reminiscences (1886), vol.2, ch.7.'Stonewall Jackson' became a popular nickname for the General.

In hoc signo vinces. In this sign thou shalt conquer.

-Constantinus
AD 312  'Constantine's Vision', quoted in Eusebius Life of Constantine.

You cannot conquer America.

-William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder Pitt
  Speech to the House of Lords,18 Nov.

The Soviet Republic needs an army that will be able to fight and conquer.

- Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein Trotsky
  Speech to the Moscow Soviet of Workers', Soldiers'and Peasants' Deputies,19 Mar.

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

- Horace, 4th Earl of Orford Walpole
  Of the Orient. Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 27 Mar. In The Correspondence of HoraceWalpole (Yale edition,1937^8).

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves† The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army.Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance or abject submission.We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

- BookerTaliaferro Washington
  General orders, 2 Jul. Quoted inJ C Fitzpatrick (ed) Writings of GeorgeWashington (1932), vol.5.