Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Mercy

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

• On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Forgiveness, Fruit, Bears

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

• Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Death, Hypocrite, Men

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

• Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Boys, Simple

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.227, Stanford University Press

• Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

  Abraham Lincoln

  Political, Together, Half

  Abraham Lincoln's letter to George Robertson of Lexington, Kentucky (August 15, 1855), later published in "Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860" by Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, 1909.

• The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Punishment, Trying, Merit

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

• The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fool, Infinite, Mercy

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