Civil war Quote by Elbridge Gerry

Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes.…

— George Washington

There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.

— Renee Montagne

Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing --…

— Anonymous

I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years.…

— Anonymous

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

— Fletcher Knebel

“If tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the altar of caution and we have…

— Zohran Mamdani

...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea…

— Abraham Lincoln

We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and…

— Allen West

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

— Abraham Lincoln

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

— Bobby Riggs

[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political…

— Alexander Hamilton