Ifs Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

— Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

— Abraham Lincoln

If you have never failed you have never lived.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

— Abraham Lincoln

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

— Abraham Lincoln

If you love something, set it free.

— Abraham Lincoln

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

— Abraham Lincoln

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for…

— Abraham Lincoln

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two…

— Abraham Lincoln

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be…

— Abraham Lincoln

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

— Abraham Lincoln

You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

— Abraham Lincoln

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man…

— Abraham Lincoln

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

— Abraham Lincoln

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would…

— Abraham Lincoln

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not…

— Abraham Lincoln

All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from…

— Abraham Lincoln

The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and…

— Abraham Lincoln

Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in…

— Abraham Lincoln

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there…

— Abraham Lincoln

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend…

— Abraham Lincoln

At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab…

— Abraham Lincoln

I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve…

— Abraham Lincoln

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in…

— Abraham Lincoln

I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it.…

— Abraham Lincoln

Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to…

— Abraham Lincoln

I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my…

— Abraham Lincoln

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical…

— Abraham Lincoln

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it…

— Abraham Lincoln

It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to…

— Abraham Lincoln

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but…

— Abraham Lincoln

Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south…

— Abraham Lincoln

I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my…

— Abraham Lincoln

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent…

— Abraham Lincoln

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

— Abraham Lincoln

One is a majority if he is right.

— Abraham Lincoln