Vanquished

Please tell me you are smart enough to know that over time racist idiots will be vanquished from the earth in the numbers they have today. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They discover an ancient evil, long thought vanquished, is stirring and has big, nasty plans for Earth. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Such a tragic thief – I wish it would be vanquished from the world. by paris parfait ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Weak tyrant," returned Osbert, his countenance impressed with the firm dignity of virtue, "to insult the vanquished, is congenial with the cruel meanness of the murderer; nor do I expect, that the man who slew the father, will spare the son; but know, that son is nerved against your wrath, and welcomes all that your fears or your cruelty can impose." ❋ Unknown (1789)

They were again vanquished by the active vigor of Probus, who, in a short reign of about six years, 29 equalled the fame of ancient heroes, and restored peace and order to every province of the Roman world. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Among the vanquished was the master chimney – sweeper, whilom incredulous at ❋ Unknown (2007)

Our vanquished are the speculators; our vassals the shareholders. ❋ Various (N/A)

And prize-fighting is surely much more brutal, seeing that the vanquished is a human being and not a brute. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Israel by the Syrian king, and thinking of nothing but victory, paraded his clemency, called the vanquished king "his brother," invited him to sit in the royal chariot, and dismissed him with a covenant of peace. ❋ Unknown (1871)

The victories of the vanquished are the brightest of all. ❋ Hezekiah Butterworth (1872)

In those days pity for the vanquished was a sentiment but little comprehended, and he had certainly not learned it among the Romans, who frequently massacred their prisoners wholesale. ❋ Unknown (1867)

The loss of the vanquished was at first set down at three hundred, but this is an exaggeration. ❋ Unknown (1861)

Let the "Right" or the "Left" of the Convention be victors or vanquished, that is a matter which concerns them; the public at large does not enter into the discussions of its conquerors, and no longer cares for either ❋ Hippolyte Taine (1860)

Among the vanquished was the master chimney-sweeper, whilom incredulous at Staggs's Gardens, who now lived in a stuccoed house three stories high, and gave himself out, with golden flourishes upon a varnished board, as contractor for the cleansing of railway chimneys by machinery. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

Yet all of the Gipper's big moves-made against the advice of pretty much everyone, from the intelligence community to the realists to the neocons-were, to use a term his vanquished ideological opponents would understand, correct. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Please note that I am NOT equating namestealing / shifting to our propensity for justifying real physical harm, or even to Hitler -- he understood that submitting demands to the vanquished was a psychologically powerful way to convince people to do anything. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 1724, according to Texas governor Domingo Cabello, the Lipan Apaches were completely vanquished from the southern plains in a bloody nine-day battle at a place the Spanish called El Gran Cierro de La Ferro “Great Mountain of Iron”, thought to be on the Wichita River in what is now southwestern Oklahoma.8 By the end of the 1720s, the savagery of the attacks on the Apaches had become so pronounced, and so widespread, that some Apaches even sought the shelter of the Spanish pueblo at Pecos, not far from Santa Fe. ❋ S. C. Gwynne (2010)

Go ahead and nominate him, and feel like you "vanquished" the Clinton's, if that is what you wanted. ❋ Unknown (2008)