compassion Quotes

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

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

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.