"If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none."
— Politics

January 1, 1970

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Usually quoted, "Few die and none resign." Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elias Shipman and Merchants of New Haven (July 12, 1801).