I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. – Abraham Lincoln
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. – Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. – Abraham Lincoln
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. – Abraham Lincoln
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. – Abraham Lincoln
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. – Abraham Lincoln