Famous quotes containing the words general, convention and/or held:
“The general will is always right.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
“By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by
convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.”
—Democritus (c. 460–400 B.C.)
“There was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath
For a time.”
—Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)