I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

classic quote by Robert Burns
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I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.

quote by Joe Manchin
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I have impeached myself by resigning.

quote by Richard Milhous Nixon
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

quote by Graham Greene
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

quote by Richard Milhous Nixon
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All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

quote by Frank Chodorov
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I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.

quote by Hugo Chavez
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Only A King Can…

Only a King can;

Declare himself omnipotent
Promote lies or alter truth
Change or ignore laws
Take, without asking
Violate personal privacy
Debauch his subjects
Imprison anyone
Order invasion/war
Order torture
Impose unjust taxation
Reward or punish anyone
Abdicate

“Hail the reign and abdication of King George”

ROTMS

poem by Ray Lucero
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The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

quote by Frank Chodorov
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Only five lines
I should send you
with resignation—
Only a sky of falling stars
keeps us apart

tanka by Şerban Codrin from Albatross (2007), translated by Alexandra Flora Munteanu
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I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.

quote by James McGreevey
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Who wives for a dower, resigns his own power.

French proverbs
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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

quote by Joseph Conrad
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I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.

quote by Geoffrey Rush
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Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

quote by Alexandre Vinet
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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Henry David Thoreau in Walden
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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

quote by Daniel Ellsberg
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Sonnet: Resignation- a Virtue

If all attempts to usher justice fails;
If labour hard towards a goal's sheer waste;
If lies, dishonest means still much prevail;
Resign, we must to fate and defeat taste.

If all prayers to God goes without heed;
If mother Nature acts to favour crooks;
If Luck and pluck deserts us too indeed;
Resign, we must to fate’s improper looks.

Yet, Resignation is a virtue too,
Which good man adds to list, he possesses;
A test of humility, we must do;
‘fore God, our performance, well assesses.

Resignation 's, a feather in one's cap,
By which we put our problems in God's lap!

poem by John Celes
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I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.

quote by Frederick W. Borden
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