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

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

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan

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

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.