“As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.” PastAsksConflictGoodnessMercyRevengeTragicRejectsPatrioticRejectedCasualtiesAmnesty Author:Gerald R. Ford
“Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.” PastRevengeReachingReach Out Book:Miles Errant Source: Miles Errant
“A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.” PastSufferingRevengeVainVengeanceAbolishRecklessness Book:In Defense of Politics Source: In Defense of Politics