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