"I regret the rain, but it remains as the Bible tells us on the just and the unjust alike,

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on Republicans as well as Democrats"

John F. Kennedy
National Plowing Contest Sioux Falls, SD
September 22, 1960
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=74150

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1. That's from The Merchant of Venice.

The quality of mercy is not strained;
it falleth as the gentle rain on the just and unjust alike.

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2. ... for he makes the sun shine alike upon both the evil and the good, and sends rain to the just

and to the unjust ... Matthew 5:45

... The quality of mercy is not strain'd.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway,
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's,
When mercy seasons justice ... Merchant of Venice IV:1