Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Justice

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  • Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

    Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.35, Penguin
  • I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

    Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume
  • Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

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

    Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”
  • My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

    Men  
    Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois
  • 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?

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861
  • The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

    Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy
  • May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

    Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.51, Wildside Press LLC
  • Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

  • We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

    Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

    "Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862
  • The severest justice may not always be the best policy

    Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.330, Wildside Press LLC
  • I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

    Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.118, Stackpole Books
  • Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

    Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, Joseph Choate, Francis F. Browne (2017). “LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate”, p.1246, Madison & Adams Press
  • The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

    The Sub-Treasury Speech Springfield, Illinois December 26, 1839
  • I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

    Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.272, Penguin
  • Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

    Men  
    Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.334, Library of America
  • The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

    Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.44, Penguin
  • Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

    Men  
    Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois
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Abraham Lincoln

  • Born: February 12, 1809
  • Died: April 15, 1865
  • Occupation: 16th U.S. President