Conventions Quote by Murray Kempton

“A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.” quote by Murray Kempton — Download Open image

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

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It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

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We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

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A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

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Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

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[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used England of course as the model and said suppose that in England everyone had the free right to vote; the poor, the propertyless - who are the great majority - would use their voting power to…

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On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern…

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