amnesty, n.Definitions

Amnesty is the most beautiful word in all human speech.

Amnesty is the act of forgiving crimes caused by those for whom it would be unprofitable to punish.

Amnesty is the state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Amnesty is the state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Amnesty is a noble word. What it stands for is the true dictate of wisdom.

Amnesty is an Obama ruse that wrongly claims will be a huge boon to the economy to give amnesty to millions of low-wage workers, who won't pay income taxes but will need a lot of government services.

Amnesty is a retroactive license to commit political crimes with impunity, esp. as demanded by well-heeled leftist agitators who wish to distinguish themselves from criminals without education or breeding.

Amnesty is defined not simply as a forgetting of a repression of the past... it is an exhortation not to make bad use of memory.