Reprieve Quotes

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

The offender never pardons.

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

For them an iota of forgiveness should not be given.

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.

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

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

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.

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

We need Grace and forgiveness.

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

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

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

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

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

All my life, Sundays have been a working day.

Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.

I have no room for prisoners.

Clemency is patricide

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.

If Arnold is elected, you know who I'd feel sorry for? The people on death row. Imagine, you're about to be executed, the governor calls, you think it's your reprieve, and you hear 'Hasta la vista, baby.'

Sometimes sports serves as a reprieve from politics, and sometimes it serves as an extension of it.