The severest justice may not always be the best policy

Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Justice Quotes

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to...

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to...

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms,...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms,...

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.

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

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

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No,...

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No,...

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men....

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men....

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is...

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is...

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...

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood

Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the...

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the...

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is...

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is...

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to...

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to...