“The essence of justice is mercy.”
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope”
Winston Churchill
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits that strict justice.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.”
G. K. Chesterton
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
“I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.”
Thomas Paine
“God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation”
John Calvin