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We pardon to the extent that we love.

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

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.