Convention Quotes

318 quotes by 269 authors

The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its utility can be… — Carol Bellamy
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always… — Abraham Lincoln
The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress. — Trevor Baylis
Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a… — Garry Kasparov
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have… — Mark Twain
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality… — Mark Twain
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever… — Thurgood Marshall
Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention). — Paulo Coelho
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South… — George Washington
The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare… — Alexander Hamilton
The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as… — James Madison
It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable. — James Madison
[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods. — Thomas Jefferson
[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the… — George Washington
The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings,… — George Washington
[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give… — Alexander Hamilton
THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power… — James Madison
But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of… — Alexander Hamilton
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due… — Northrop Frye
The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it? — Dan Rather

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