Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln: I've hung my hat and here it stays till they knock it off with a bayonet. From now on, Mary, I'm going to run this war!

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Abraham Lincoln: You taught me how to love.

Ann Rutledge: Have I taught you to like it?
[both laugh]

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Abraham Lincoln: I've hung my hat and here it stays till they knock it off with a bayonet. From now on, Mary, I'm going to run this war!

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Abraham Lincoln: You know, I feel like little Jimmy Watkins. He got a hunk of gingerbread the other day and said, 'I guess there's nobody loves gingerbread like I does and gets so little of it.'

Ann Rutledge: Oh, Abe.

Abraham Lincoln: Ann, will you... will you marry me? I mean, of course, when I get out of debt and can support you?

Ann Rutledge: Well, you know, Abe, I've intended to for a long while. That is, of course, if you ask me.

Abraham Lincoln: You... you mean...?

Ann Rutledge: Yes, Abe... you've got your gingerbread.

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Abraham Lincoln: You know, Ann, I... I've always done a lot of dreaming. And lately it seems when I dream, your face gets mixed up in it.

Ann Rutledge: Does it really, Abe? Tell me about them, Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln: Well, I... I feel as though I'm going to be seeing your face 'til the day I die. Course, I know that that'll be pretty hard on you to have to look at my face that long.

Ann Rutledge: Everybody to their own opinion.

Abraham Lincoln: Hmm?

Ann Rutledge: Well, I... I think it's the dearest, kindest, most beautiful face in the whole world.

Abraham Lincoln: Oh, Ann, Ann. Course, I know that's just flattery, but I love it.

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Abraham Lincoln: You taught me how to love.

Ann Rutledge: Have I taught you to like it?
[both laugh]

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Boy seeing baby Abe: Shucks, he'll never amount to nothin', no how!

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Bobby: I did what any guy woulda done: I reached down and stuck my pinky right in her asshole.
[Mimes pinkying girl's asshole]

Johnny: Classic Bobby; gave her the old Quarterback Sneak.

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Mary Todd Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln! Will you never learn to keep your feet in shoes!

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Mary Todd Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln! Will you never learn to keep your feet in shoes!

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Offut: There he is! Ugliest, laziest, smartest man in New Salem. Ain't ya, Abe?

Abraham Lincoln: Well, I don't mind my face; I'm behind it. It's the people in front that get jarred.

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Offut: There he is! Ugliest, laziest, smartest man in New Salem. Ain't ya, Abe?

Abraham Lincoln: Well, I don't mind my face; I'm behind it. It's the people in front that get jarred.

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Steve: I don't wanna jump out of a window!

Johnny: [Disgusted] I should've known.

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[historical quote]
Himself - as Abraham Lincoln: Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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[an aide suggests that General Lee surrender]

Gen. Robert E. Lee: (grasping sword) Surrender? My poor army! Why I'd rather die a thousand deaths than...

Aide: There, there, General. You must lie down and rest.

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[death scene]

Ann Rutledge: I know the truth, dear. It's goodbye.

Abraham Lincoln: No, no, Ann, dear. You're not going to leave me. I won't let you!

Ann Rutledge: We must be brave, dear...
[looking up to the heavens]

Ann Rutledge: Don't take me away. Don't take me away! It's so dark and lonesome!

Abraham Lincoln: Ann, you mustn't let go.

Ann Rutledge: If they'd sing, I wouldn't be so afraid.
[a chorus of Sweet By and By swells up in the background]

Ann Rutledge: We will meet there, dear.

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[first lines]

Narrator: Abraham Lincoln argued against the spread of slavery to the western states in a February 1960 speech at Cooper Union's Great Hall. The oration is the subject of a new book by Harold Holzer entitled, Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President. Next the author introduces actor Sam Waterston who reenacts the address.

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[historical quote]

Himself - as Abraham Lincoln: Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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[an aide suggests that General Lee surrender]
Gen. Robert E. Lee: (grasping sword) Surrender? My poor army! Why I'd rather die a thousand deaths than...
Aide: There, there, General. You must lie down and rest.

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[death scene]

Ann Rutledge: I know the truth, dear. It's goodbye.

Abraham Lincoln: No, no, Ann, dear. You're not going to leave me. I won't let you!

Ann Rutledge: We must be brave, dear...
[looking up to the heavens]

Ann Rutledge: Don't take me away. Don't take me away! It's so dark and lonesome!

Abraham Lincoln: Ann, you mustn't let go.

Ann Rutledge: If they'd sing, I wouldn't be so afraid.
[a chorus of "Sweet By and By" swells up in the background]

Ann Rutledge: We will meet there, dear.

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[first lines]

Narrator: Abraham Lincoln argued against the spread of slavery to the western states in a February 1960 speech at Cooper Union's Great Hall. The oration is the subject of a new book by Harold Holzer entitled, "Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President." Next the author introduces actor Sam Waterston who reenacts the address.

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[historical quote]

Himself - as Abraham Lincoln: Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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