Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.
Jon Lee Anderson

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.
Cole Younger

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.
Giraldus Cambrensis

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
Richard Francis Burton

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Oliver Goldsmith

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.
John White Geary

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
Benjamin Disraeli