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?

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

It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies

Something in [the] Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time.

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.