was never one for accepting convention at face value, but…

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

“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

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

“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

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

— Elizabeth Bowen

The calendar? A mere convention.

— Irina Ratushinskaya

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

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

“Yielding to convention yields nothing new.”

— Rich DiSilvio

Society's the mother of convention.

— Carolyn Wells

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

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

— Murray Kempton

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

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

— Elbridge Gerry

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

— Edith Hamilton