Quotes About Pardons

I don't mind giving 5,000 pardons a day.

We can't let ourselves stop believing in Second Chances for everyone. That's why my role on the Board of Pardons is so important to me.

Trump revels in issuing pardons, because that power is essentially absolute.

I have been pitiless in my criticism of the economists: for them I confess that, in general, I have no liking. The arrogance and the emptiness of their writings, their impertinent pride and their unwarranted blunders, have disgusted me. Whoever, knowing them, pardons them, may read them.

President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter was also taken for a ride, but by his successor, Ronald Reagan, over the return of the Iran hostages.

First, my fear; then, my curtsy; last my speech. My fear is your displeasure; my curtsy, my duty; and my speech, to beg your pardons.

Of course we're guilty!-That's what we've got pardons for!

He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing.

In PA, the Lieutenant Governor serves as the Chair of the Board of Pardons. That means that I sit as the head of our five-person board, where we hear testimony and process applications for pardons and sentence commutation.

This sincerity covers, and pardons all, [and] is the very substance of the American panic.

President Clinton also pardoned sixteen Puerto Rican terrorists who had set off more than a hundred bombs in New York and Chicago in the seventies and eighties, killing a half dozen people and injuring more than seventy. They hadn't even asked for pardons. If

Brimful of pardons come from Rome, all hot. He had the same small voice a goat has got

The unchangeableness of the Lord's love, and the riches of his mercy, are likewise more illustrated by the multiplied pardons He bestows upon his people — than if they needed no forgiveness at all.

Mason also objected that permitting the president to grant pardons even in cases of treason was dangerous because he might pardon crimes "which were advised by himself.

As a result, there occurred periodic pardons (indultos) for civil war-related offences (though never for anything defined as post-war "crimes against the security of the state"). Tens of thousands of people were released by the mid 1940s. These pardons were necessary or the gaols would have caved in under the pressure

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.

To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

We all know about the Clintons, who went from zero to $200 million since Bill Clinton left the White House. The Clintons made money every which way: by renting out American foreign policy, by selling pardons, by siphoning off earthquake aid intended for poor Haitians. I have written about this previously, so I won't go into it here. But in profiting handsomely from their office and connections, the Clintons are not alone; rather, they are part of a Democratic trend.

Trump pardons were less judicial corrections or acts of forbearance and kindness than statements of defiance.

Relief and something like joy flew up inside Trevor's chest. They give us these miracles, these pardons, so generously, he thought; they crush our spirits like crashing boulders only to hold open their hands to give us jewels.