Quotes about Empathy

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

but let us judge not that we be not judged.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

I rejoice with you in the success, which has thus far attended the cause. Yet in all our rejoicings, let us neither express nor cherish any hard feelings toward any citizen who by his vote has differed with us. Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.

If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad

We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizens of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like the Pharisees set ourselves up to be better than other people.

I do not wish you to believe that I assume to be any better than others who have gone before me.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

Aqueles que negam liberdade aos outros não merecem para si mesmos.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.