Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
Quotes about pardoning (15 Quotes)
I do not question the motives, nor do I know the motives for the president pardoning Mr. Rich, ... I do know that there's a terrible appearance of impropriety when a million dollars in soft money is given by the ex-wife of a fugitive from justice.
Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
I have a clear conscience, I have not knowingly done anything wrong and I have no intention of pardoning myself,
The timing of this latest pardoning is so grossly inappropriate for two reasons. One, it almost falls on the exact anniversary of an incident that only occurred three years ago, and secondly it occurs less than one week after the same group are believed responsible for the most recent murderous outrage,
(As for) those of you who put away their wives by likening their backs to the backs of their mothers, they are not their mothers their mothers are no others than those who gave them birth and most surely they utter a hateful word and a falsehood and most surely Allah is Pardoning, Forgiving.
The action he took with respect to pardoning Mr. Khan is something that he felt was appropriate for him to do and he has explained his position thoroughly,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
O you who believe do not go near prayer when you are Intoxicated until you know (well) what you say, nor when you are under an obligation to perform a bath-- unless (you are) travelling on the road-- until you have washed yourselves and if you are sick, or on a journey, or one of you come from the privy or you have touched the women, and you cannot find water, betake yourselves to pure earth, then wipe your faces and your hands surely Allah is Pardoning, Forgiving.
When people hear the word 'pardon,' they think back to Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon in September 1974. That decision alone cost Ford a four-year term as president. This is as big as it gets.
Surely (as for) those whom the angels cause to die while they are unjust to their souls, they shall say In what state were you They shall say We were weak in the earth. They shall say Was not Allah's earth spacious, so that you should have migrated therein So these it is whose abode is hell, and it is an evil resort Except the weak from among the men and the children who have not in their power the means nor can they find a way (to escape) So these, it may be, Allah will pardon them, and Allah is Pardoning, Forgiving.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred ... let me sow love. Where there is injury ... pardon. Where there is doubt ... faith. Where there is despair ... hope. Where there is darkness ... light. Where there is sadness ... joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled ... as to console, To be understood ... as to understand To be loved ... as to love, For It is in giving ... that we receive. It is in pardoning ... that we are pardoned, It is in dying ... that we are born to eternal life.
What Clinton did reinforced the perception that there's a lot of harm and not a lot of good to be done with the use of this power. There's a lot of political harm that you risk by pardoning the wrong person. ... Bush's pardons are extraordinarily safe.
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.