I can Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

I can't spare this man, he fights!

— Abraham Lincoln

By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."

— Abraham Lincoln

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

— Abraham Lincoln

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

— Abraham Lincoln

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having…

— Abraham Lincoln

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

— Abraham Lincoln

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

— Abraham Lincoln

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and…

— Abraham Lincoln

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

— Abraham Lincoln

Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.

— Abraham Lincoln

I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ...…

— Abraham Lincoln

Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think,…

— Abraham Lincoln

I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my…

— Abraham Lincoln

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures…

— Abraham Lincoln

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I…

— Abraham Lincoln

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view…

— Abraham Lincoln

I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I…

— Abraham Lincoln

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because,…

— Abraham Lincoln