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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.
There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.
The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.
The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.
If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.
As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
I always thought it'd be fun to go to a sci-fi convention, watch a bunch of Klingons walking around, all of that kind of stuff.
The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.
Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war.
We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.
Somewhere along the line a convention developed that the opening of a film was just a laundry list of credits. There was no incentive to complicate an area that was settled.
In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.
Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood.
I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some pages. It's hard work. And it requires you learn certain skills.
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.
All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost.
Political parties usually try to lay low or provide effective responses to the opposite party's convention.
I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.
I've always read a lot of sci-fi. When my son was younger, I actually went to a 'Star Trek' convention.
Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.
When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.
A lot of senators are so worried about convention and how they look that they wouldn't let their hair down if they had any.
When Britain signed up to the European Convention and its later protocols, the words 'universal suffrage' were deleted from the 'right to vote' article.
Welcome delegates to the 2012 Republican Convention! Remember to set your watches back 400 years.
I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.
Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.
Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.
There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.
The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.
She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud her defiance of convention.
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.
Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget these seasonal injunctions.
One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
It's a convention, but in horror movies the female characters usually tend to believe easier in a supernatural event.
As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved.
The top two goals of every presidential nominating convention are to unify the party and to define the candidate for the grueling weeks ahead.
The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
I'll never forget my first moment of looking out on a convention audience with my mouth open like they were kidding me.
Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.
We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.
New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.
I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.
Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
At the Republican convention, there were lots of words used to describe Hillary Clinton, but warm, funny and caring weren't among them.
