Few die, none resign (Quotation)
From Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
"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]
