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)

    It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.
    —For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

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