I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Quote by Abraham Lincoln

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new...

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new...

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too,...

I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too,...

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it...

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it...

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever...

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever...

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak...

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak...

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him...

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him...

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to...

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to...

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease...

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease...