Justice Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

— Abraham Lincoln

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

— Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice.

— Abraham Lincoln

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

— Abraham Lincoln

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

— Abraham Lincoln

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

— Abraham Lincoln

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

— Abraham Lincoln

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth…

— Abraham Lincoln

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

— Abraham Lincoln

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down…

— Abraham Lincoln

I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that…

— Abraham Lincoln

The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is…

— Abraham Lincoln

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for…

— Abraham Lincoln

I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I…

— Abraham Lincoln

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let…

— Abraham Lincoln

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said…

— Abraham Lincoln

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature, opposition to it in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Let [the Constitution] be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges, let it be written in primers, in spelling books and…

— Abraham Lincoln

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years…

— Abraham Lincoln

Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode…

— Abraham Lincoln

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may…

— Abraham Lincoln

I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its…

— Abraham Lincoln

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all…

— Abraham Lincoln

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

— Abraham Lincoln