Zitat des Tages über Pardon:
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.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
We pardon to the extent that we love.
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
I know there's a creative side to artists to - pardon me - there's a creative side to scientists already, but there may be an artistic side, too, waiting to break free.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
The offender never pardons.
If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
He who pardons easily invites offense.
We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of a former president in the criminal dock as our country moved into its bicentennial year was profoundly disturbing.
The President can pardon us again... and again and again, but... picketing will continue, and sooner or later, he will have to do something about it.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
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.
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
I don't mind giving 5,000 pardons a day.
George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.
You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.
Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!
