In the United States, a ward is an optional division of a city or town, especially an electoral district, for administrative and representative purposes. Depending upon the state and local laws, the term ward can mean any of:
- an elective district of a city council or town board, created for the purpose of providing more direct representation, from which a single council member is elected; or
- a division used in party leadership elections, as in the wards of New Orleans.
- an administrative division, as in Wards of Newark, NJ or The six wards of Houston.
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“Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)
“Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)