https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 14 May 2026 22:32:39 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/lincoln-abraham/5162/ https://wist.info/lincoln-abraham/5162/#respond Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:09:48 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=5162 I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
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Recalled by his long-time friend, Joseph Gillespie, regarding pardons for some army deserters, in O. Oldroyd, The Lincoln Memorial: Album-Immortelles (1882).

Often attributed to a speech in Washington (1865), but I can find nothing in his collected works or in Presidential paper collections. ]]> https://wist.info/lincoln-abraham/5162/feed/ 0 5162