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Lincoln

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Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Written by: Tony Kushner, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn
Released on: November 16, 2012

Lincoln Quotes

 I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop. image

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop.

Deliver your own goddamn petition. image

Deliver your own goddamn petition.

No one is loved as much as you by the people. Don't waste that power. image

No one is loved as much as you by the people. Don't waste that power.

No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths. image

No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

Seward can't do it; you must. Because if you fail to acquire the necessary votes, woe unto you, sir. You will answer to me. image

Seward can't do it; you must. Because if you fail to acquire the necessary votes, woe unto you, sir. You will answer to me.

Buzzards' guts, man! image

Buzzards' guts, man!

 Thunder forth, God of War! image

Thunder forth, God of War!

 Each of us has made it possible for the other to do terrible things. image

Each of us has made it possible for the other to do terrible things.

It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay. image

It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me. image

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.

I must make my decision, Bob must make his, you yours. And bear what we must. Hold and carry what we must. What I carry within me, you must allow me to do it. Alone, as I must. And you alone, Mary, you alone may lighten the burden. Or render it intolerable. As you choose.

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." 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.

All we've done is show the world that democracy isn't chaos. That there is a great, invisible strength in a people's union. Say we've shown that a people can endure awful sacrifice and yet cohere. Mightn't that save at least the idea of democracy to aspire to? Eventually to become worthy of?

I heard tell once of a Jefferson City lawyer who had a parrot that would wake him each morning crying out 'today's the day the world shall end as scripture has foretold'. And one day, the lawyer shot him for the sake of peace and quiet I presume, thus fulfilling, for the bird at least, his prophecy.

My trust in him is marrow deep.

Shall we stop this bleeding?

Don't spend too much money on the flub dubs.

Euclid's first common notion is this: Things which are equal to the same things are equal to each other. That's a rule of mathematical reasoning and its true because it works - has done and always will do. In his book Euclid says this is self evident. You see there it is even in that 2000 year old book of mechanical law it is the self evident truth that things which are equal to the same things are equal to each other.

I can't listen to this anymore. I can't accomplish a goddamn thing of any worth until we cure ourselves of slavery and end this pestilential war! I wonder if any of you or anyone else knows it. I know! I need this! This amendment is that cure! We've stepped out upon the world stage now. Now! With the fate of human dignity in our hands. Blood's been spilled to afford us this moment now! Now! Now! And you grouse so and heckle and dodge about like pettifogging Tammany Hall hucksters!

You think I'm ignorant of what you're up to because you haven't discussed this scheme with me as you ought to have done? When have I ever been so easily bamboozled? I believe you when you insist that amending the Constitution and abolishing slavery will end this war. And since you're sending my son into the war, woe to you if you fail to pass the amendment.

How the people love my husband. They flock to see him by their thousands on public days. They will never love you the way they love him. How difficult it must be for you to know that, and yet how important to remember it.

William Seward : In my opinion...
Abraham Lincoln : To which I always listen...
William Seward : Or pretend to.
Abraham Lincoln : With all three of my ears.

Abraham Lincoln : It was right after the revolution, right after peace had been concluded. And Ethan Allen went to London to help our new country conduct its business with the king. The English sneered at how rough we are and rude and simple-minded and on like that, everywhere he went. 'Til one day he was invited to the townhouse of a great English lord. Dinner was served, beverages imbibed, time passed as happens and Mr. Allen found he needed the privy. He was grateful to be directed to this. Relieved, you might say. Mr. Allen discovered on entering the water closet that the only decoration therein was a portrait of George Washington. Ethan Allen done what he came to do and returned to the drawing room. His host and the others were disappointed when he didn't mention Washington's portrait. And finally his lordship couldn't resist and asked Mr. Allen had he noticed it, the picture of Washington. He said he had. Well, what did he think of its placement? Did it seem appropriately located to Mr. Allen? And Mr. Allen said it did. The host was astounded.
Abraham Lincoln : "Appropriate? George Washington's likeness in a water closet?"
Abraham Lincoln : "Yes," said Mr. Allen, "where it will do good service. The world knows nothing will make an Englishman shit quicker than the sight of George Washington."
Abraham Lincoln : I love that story.

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