I assumed we had probably covered all the bases and that it was an unconditional resignation.

It bothers me. Its not a requirement that he (Sanders) discusses any of that before he puts it on the agenda.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

I should like you to consider this letter as a resignation; I want to resign as one of your most studious and faithful admirers.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.