Few die, none resign (Quotation)
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| <blockquote>"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."<ref>Jefferson to the New Haven Merchants, [[Washington, D.C.]], July 12, 1801, in [[Short Title List|''PTJ'']], 34:556. [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib010290 Press copy] available online from the Library of Congress.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>"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."<ref>Jefferson to the New Haven Merchants, [[Washington, D.C.]], July 12, 1801, in [[Short Title List|''PTJ'']], 34:556. [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib010290 Press copy] available online from the Library of Congress.</ref></blockquote> | ||
| - | The source of this paraphrase may be Edward Archibald Allen and William Schuyler's 1901 work, ''The World's Best Orations: | + | The source of this paraphrase may be Edward Archibald Allen and William Schuyler's 1901 work, ''The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time'', which gave the entry for this quotation the much shorter and more memorable title of "Few Die, None Resign."<ref>''The World's Best Orations: |
| - | From the Earliest Period to the Present Time'', which gave the entry for this quotation the much shorter and more memorable title of "Few Die, None Resign."<ref>''The World's Best Orations: | + | |
| From the Earliest Period to the Present Time'' (St. Louis, Mo.: Kaiser, 1901), [http://books.google.com/books?id=C35ZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3945 10:3945].</ref> | From the Earliest Period to the Present Time'' (St. Louis, Mo.: Kaiser, 1901), [http://books.google.com/books?id=C35ZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3945 10:3945].</ref> | ||
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"Few die, none resign", is a paraphrase of a statement Thomas Jefferson made in a letter to a group of New Haven, Connecticut merchants in 1801:
"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."[1]
The source of this paraphrase may be Edward Archibald Allen and William Schuyler's 1901 work, The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, which gave the entry for this quotation the much shorter and more memorable title of "Few Die, None Resign."[2]
Footnotes
- ↑ Jefferson to the New Haven Merchants, Washington, D.C., July 12, 1801, in PTJ, 34:556. Press copy available online from the Library of Congress.
- ↑ The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (St. Louis, Mo.: Kaiser, 1901), 10:3945.
