Seat Declared Vacant

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

    “I now leave Charleston, the seat of Satan, dissipation, and folly.”
    —Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Chippenhook was the home of Judge Theophilus Harrington, known for his trenchant reply to an irate slave-owner in a runaway slave case. Judge Harrington declared that the owner’s claim to the slave was defective. The owner indignantly demanded to know what was lacking in his legally sound claim. The Judge exploded, ‘A bill of sale, sir, from God Almighty!’”
    —For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
    The worlds revolve like ancient women
    Gathering fuel in vacant lots.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)