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)

    “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)