#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. ↗

— John Podesta

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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#condemned #hope #most #pardon #solitude

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#action #base #being #dishonorable #doing

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#committed #folly #least #might #ourselves

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall. ↗

— Morley Safer

#marc #pardoning #rich

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country. ↗

— Morley Safer

#certain way #country #did #ford #jerry

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#bush #comic #crowd #expression #george

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative. ↗

— Charles Edward Merriam

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