Criticism surprises the soul in the arms of convention.

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that…

— George Santayana

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

— Elbridge Gerry

The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.

— Bill Maher

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva…

— Noam Chomsky

Society's the mother of convention.

— Carolyn Wells

“Yielding to convention yields nothing new.”

— Rich DiSilvio

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the…

— Barton Gellman

The calendar? A mere convention.

— Irina Ratushinskaya

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

— Elizabeth Bowen

“We'd been trying so hard to look like our heroes, we'd kinda forgotten what a hero really is. Capes, masks, powers — sure, that's…

— Mikko

Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning…

— Claire McCaskill

“He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a…

— Ayn Rand

No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the…

— Samuel Freeman Miller