Declared Vacant April

Famous quotes containing the words declared, vacant and/or april:

    “We would fain express our appreciation of the freedom and steady wisdom, so rare in the reformer, with which he declared that he was not born to abolish slavery, but to do right.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.”
    —Louis XIV (1638–1715)

    “From land to land; and in my breast
    Spring wakens too; and my regret
    Becomes an April violet,
    And buds and blossoms like the rest.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)