Political Conventions

Famous quotes containing the words political and/or conventions:

“There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one’s enemies as if they may one day become one’s friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)