“What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.”— John Milius
“I have burnt and sunk 19 sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I have burned and spoiled.”— Thomas Cavendish
“We have conquered a vast empire and have purified the earth of the disorders that tainted it.”— Hulagu Khan
“I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.”— Hernán Cortés
“War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any conditions they please upon the vanquished.”— Lucan
“I have tamed men of iron, and shall I not tame men of butter?”— Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
“These people are very simple in war-like matters... I could conquer the whole of them with 50 men, and govern them as I pleased.”— Christopher Columbus