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• 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… — Emanuel Celler
• When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles… — Nicolas Chamfort
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• There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists… — George Santayana
• How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from… — Bill Bradley
• I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful… — David Ogilvy
• Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we… — 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… — H. L. Mencken

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