Quotes about Reprieve

Immanuel Kant

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

George Herbert

The offender never pardons.

Ambrose Bierce

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Jiang Zemin

For them an iota of forgiveness should not be given.

leaders of the democratic protests of 1989

Asha Rangappa

After all, clemency is by nature outside the rule of law. When conferred upon those already convicted of crimes, it unravels the decision of citizen-jurors who found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Ashley Cole

When I used to see things in the newspapers, going onto the pitch was the best way to get away from it.

Mary Lou Retton

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

Abraham Lincoln

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Herbert Hoover

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

Phil Gramm

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

Pope Benedict XVI

We need Grace and forgiveness.

Shimon Peres

I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.

Thomas Brooks

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

Winston Churchill

The redress of the grievances of the vanquished should precede the disarmament of the victors.

John Fremont

I have no room for prisoners.

The prisoners were shot. Over a decade later, Fremont was running for the Presidency against Buchanan. This incident became public and hurt Fremont with many voters.