American Convention

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or convention:

    On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband’s dinners.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.
    —United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.