#pardon

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. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#attention #attract #authority #events #himself

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

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#condemned #hope #most #pardon #solitude

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

— Thomas a Kempis

#knew #pardon #would #you

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

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

#doing #done #given #imperative #invent

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#hair #long #long hair #offense #should

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. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#decided #department #doing #had #knew

So Jane was getting married. Well, more power to her. In fact, let me tighten those straps. Any word from the governor on the pardon? No? All right, then, more power to her. ↗

— James Lileks

#pardon #marriage

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? ↗

— Milton Friedman

#appointed #basis #choose #clout #communist

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. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#away #could #dying #get #governor