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Your Quotes for 9 August 2005 - Resignation

It was on this day in 1974 that US President Richard M. Nixon resigned from that office, the only person ever to do so. Somewhere, in one of those boxes of important memorabilia I seem to only look in ever five or ten years, I have a copy of the Seattle PI from that date, the headline must have been three inches tall. At the time I thought it was a good thing. I still do, of course, but now I find myself wondering: Just who does the president give his resignation to?

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
     - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890 - 1969

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.
     - Henri Frederic Amiel, 1821 - 1881

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
     - Archibald MacLeish, 1892 - 1982

If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, I would appoint him secretary of state, and then Al Gore and I would resign so he could become president.
     - William Jefferson Clinton

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.
     - Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
     - Fred Allen, 1894 - 1956

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