Convention Quotes
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.
...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.
To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.
Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.
The tastiest berries are often hidden.Do not despair if you haven't found true love.Look under the leaves and branches of convention.
One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort of deal as when you step on a anthill and they all come swarming around.
Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.
Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.
Often I didn’t think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.
The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward them has not changed. Has not changed.
We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.
from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...
There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.