Robert Hartman Quotes

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

The world may censure me for what I am about to do, but I am sure that posterity will justify me.

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

I want to go down as a champion who redeemed himself, made up for letting everyone down and regained his self-respect.

I looked at Robert Downey, Jr. and all these people - when you ask for redemption, people will give it to you. But if you're the boy who cried wolf, they'll destroy you.

I remain convinced that pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn't equal the right thing for one day.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done something wrong in their life, now because of those mistakes, can't talk about what is the right thing to do.

As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

Every person who is tempted to go astray does not deserve punishment

We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

For myself and for our nation I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land.