Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.