I would make this war as severe as possible and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong truth and error justice and injustice cruelty and mercy.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty the truth has to do with mercy.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

Churchill knew the importance of peace and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice of course. He stressed strategy but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty justice and mercy.

Christmas is not a time nor a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill to be plenteous in mercy is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature there is no appeal.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Love has its place as does hate. Peace has its place as does war. Mercy has its place as do cruelty and revenge.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

When a man assumes leadership he forfeits the right to mercy.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness and no virtue like mercy.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are like God's infinite mercy a last resort.

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.

We hand folks over to God's mercy and show none ourselves.

Where mercy love and pity dwell there God is dwelling too.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself and for our world.