Convention Quotes

318 quotes by 271 authors

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein. — Carol Bellamy
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it. — David Brinkley
The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men. — Emanuel Celler
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as… — Nicolas Chamfort
There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that… — Jim Bush
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a… — George Santayana
How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of… — Bill Bradley
I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon… — David Ogilvy
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic… — Benjamin Franklin
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary. — Benjamin Franklin
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. — H. L. Mencken
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing,… — Norman Mailer
'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists… — Edward Robert Harrison
All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income… — Walter Wriston
By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention colour is colour.… — Democritus
All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting… — Oliver Ellsworth
Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved — Juan Manuel Santos
Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of… — John McCain
This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with… — Wilhelm Keitel

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