Abraham Lincoln Bears Quotations

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

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

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.