If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl…

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that…

— Havelock Ellis

[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used…

— Noam Chomsky

[The Massachusetts constitution] resembles the federal Constitution of 1787 more closely than any of the other revolutionary state constitutions. It was also drawn up…

— Gordon S. Wood

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality…

— George Bernard Shaw

I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they…

— Mike Pence

The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention?…

— James Fallows

The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the…

— Jostein Gaarder

As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has…

— Mark Colvin

Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind…

— P. J. O'Rourke

On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions…

— C. D. Innes

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

— Ernest Cline

Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose…

— Saddam Hussein

The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to…

— Alan Watts

Everything [Ted] Cruz was doing was legal, it was aboveboard, but it was portrayed as Cruz is the villain, and here's [Donald] Trump and…

— Rush Limbaugh

2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red…

— Thomas Menino