Seat Declared Vacant

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

    “My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Without this, as well as with it, we could have declared our independence of Great Britain; but without it, we could not, I think, have secured our free government, and consequent prosperity. No oppressed, people will fight, and endure, as our fathers did, without the promise of something better, than a mere change of masters.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay
    Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure,
    The heart luxuriates with indifferent things,
    Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones,
    And on the vacant air.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)