Revenge proves its own executioner.

Revenge proves its own executioner.

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter, ere long, back on itself recoils

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.