National Convention Held

Famous quotes containing the words national, convention and/or held:

“I came here for one thing only, to try to help national Ireland—and if there is no such thing in existence then the sooner I pay for my illusions the better.”
—Roger Casement (1864–1916)

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

“... he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man’s pre- eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)