Famous quotes containing the words county and/or convention:
“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.
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