Corporal Ira Clark: Now that white people have accustomed themselves to seeing negro men with guns fighting on their behalf, and even getting the same pay, in a few years perhaps they can abide the idea of negro lieutenants and captains. In fifty years, maybe a negro colonel. In a hundred years, the vote. Abraham Lincoln: What will you do after the war, Corporal Clark? Corporal Ira Clark: Work sir. Perhaps you'll hire me. Abraham Lincoln: Perhaps I will. Corporal Ira Clark: But you should know, sir, that I get sick at the smell of bootblack, and I cannot cut hair. Abraham Lincoln: I've yet to find a man could make a difference with mine. Private Harold Green: You got springy hair for a white man. Abraham Lincoln: I do. My last barber hanged himself. And the one before that. Left me his scissors in his will.
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Abraham Lincoln: What a joy to be comprehended.
Abraham Lincoln: As the preacher said, I could write shorter sermons, but once I start, I get too lazy to stop.
Abraham Lincoln: I suppose it's time to go. Though I would rather stay.
Mary Todd Lincoln: It's the amendment to abolish slavery. Why else would you force me to invite demented radicals into my home?
Mary Todd Lincoln: You tell me dreams, that's all. I'm your soothsayer. That's all I am to you any more. I'm not to be trusted.
Elizabeth Blair Lee: Leo, it's 100 miles to Richmond. Get him drunk so he can sleep.
Mary Todd Lincoln: Who'd ever have guessed that old nightmare capable of such control? He might make a politician someday.
Abraham Lincoln: We begin with equality. That's the origin, isn't it? That's balance. That's - that's fairness. That's justice.
Abraham Lincoln: As the preacher said, I could write shorter sermons, but once I start, I get too lazy to stop.
Thaddeus Stevens: Trust? Gentlemen, you seem to have forgotten that our chosen career is politics.
Thaddeus Stevens: The greatest measure of the Nineteenth Century. Passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.
W.N. Bilbo: The kind that hates niggers, hates God for making niggers.
Abraham Lincoln: My trust in him is marrow deep.
Robert Latham: It's not illegal to bribe congressmen. They starve otherwise.
Mary Todd Lincoln: No one is loved as much as you by the people. Don't waste that power.
Abraham Lincoln: I suppose it's time to go. Though I would rather stay.
Abraham Lincoln: If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.
Abraham Lincoln: My trust in him is marrow deep.
Abraham Lincoln: Do you think we choose to be born? Samuel Beckwith: I don't suppose so. Abraham Lincoln: Are we fitted to the times we're born into? Samuel Beckwith: Well, I don't know about myself. You may be, sir. Fitted.
Clerk - Edward McPherson: And Mr. George Yeaman, how say you? George Yeaman: My vote ties us. Clerk - Edward McPherson: Sorry Mr. Yeaman, I didn't hear your vote. George Yeaman: I said aye, Mr. McPherson. AYYYYYYEEEEEE!
Thaddeus Stevens: We shall oppose this amendment and any legislation that so affronts natural law insulting to God as to man. Congress must never declare equal those whom God created unequal. Thaddeus Stevens: Slavery is the only insult to the natural law, you fatuous nincompoop.
Clerk - Edward McPherson: Roll call concludes. Voting is completed. Now... Schuyler Colfax: Mr. clerk? Please call my name. I want to cast a vote. George Pendleton: I object! The Speaker doesn't vote. Clerk - Edward McPherson: The Speaker may vote if he so chooses. George Pendleton: It is highly unusual, sir. Schuyler Colfax: This isn't usual, Mr. Pendleton. This is history.
Corporal Ira Clark: Now that white people have accustomed themselves to seeing negro men with guns fighting on their behalf, and even getting the same pay, in a few years perhaps they can abide the idea of negro lieutenants and captains. In fifty years, maybe a negro colonel. In a hundred years, the vote. Abraham Lincoln: What will you do after the war, Corporal Clark? Corporal Ira Clark: Work sir. Perhaps you'll hire me. Abraham Lincoln: Perhaps I will. Corporal Ira Clark: But you should know, sir, that I get sick at the smell of bootblack, and I cannot cut hair. Abraham Lincoln: I've yet to find a man could make a difference with mine. Private Harold Green: You got springy hair for a white man. Abraham Lincoln: I do. My last barber hanged himself. And the one before that. Left me his scissors in his will.
Abraham Lincoln: I never seen the like of it before, what I seen today. Never seen the like of it before. Ulysses S. Grant: You always knew that. What this was going to be. Intimate and ugly. You must have needed to see it close when you decided to come down here. Abraham Lincoln: We've made it possible for one another to do terrible things. Ulysses S. Grant: We've won the war. Now you have to lead us out of it.
Ulysses S. Grant: By outward appearance, you're 10 years older than you were a year ago. Abraham Lincoln: Some weariness has bit at my bones.
Abraham Lincoln: I did say *some* colored men, the intelligent, the educated, and veterans, I qualified it. James Ashley: Mr. Stevens is furious. He wants to know why you qualified it. Schuyler Colfax: No one heard the "intelligent" or the "educated" part. All they heard was the first time any president has ever made mention of Negro voting. Abraham Lincoln: Still, I wish I'd mentioned it in a better speech. James Ashley: Mr. Stevens also wants to know why you didn't make a better speech.
Abraham Lincoln: I ought to have done it, I ought have done for Tad's sake! For everybody goddamned sake! I should've clapped you in the madhouse! Mary Todd Lincoln: Then do it! Do it! Don't you threaten me,you do it this time! Lock me away! You'll have to, I swear if Robert is killed!
Mary Todd Lincoln: All anyone will remember of me is I was crazy and I ruined your happiness. Abraham Lincoln: Anyone who thinks that doesn't understand, Molly. Mary Todd Lincoln: When they look at you, at what it cost to live at the heart of this, they'll wonder at it. They'll wonder at you. They should. But they should also look at the wretched woman by your side, if they want to understand what this was truly like, for an ordinary person, for anyone other than you. Abraham Lincoln: You must try to be happier. We must, both of us. We've been so miserable for so long.
Abraham Lincoln: It's nighttime. Ship's move by some terrible power at terrific speed. And though it's imperceptible in the darkness, I have an intuition that we're headed towards a shore. No one else seems to be aboard the vessel. I'm very keenly aware of my aloneness. Abraham Lincoln: "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." Abraham Lincoln: Hmm. I reckon it's the speed that's strange to me. I'm used to going at a deliberate pace. I should space you, Molly. I shouldn't tell you my dreams. Mary Todd Lincoln: I don't want to be spared if you aren't And you spare me nothing.
Tad Lincoln: Papa? Papa, I want to see Willie. Abraham Lincoln: Me too, Tad. But we can't. Willie's gone. Three years now, he's gone.
Thaddeus Stevens: Read it to me again, my love. Lydia Smith: "Proposed..." Thaddeus Stevens: And adopted. Lydia Smith: Adopted. "An Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Section One: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Thaddeus Stevens: Section Two... Lydia Smith: "Congress shall have power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation..."
Abraham Lincoln: Seward doesn't want me leaving big muddy footprints all over town. Mary Todd Lincoln: No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.
Robert Lincoln: I'm the only man over fifteen and under sixty-five in this whole place not in uniform. Tad Lincoln: I'm under fifteen and I have a uniform.
Tad Lincoln: When you were a slave, Mr. Slade, did they beat you? William Slade: I was born a free man. Nobody beat me except I beat them right back. Elizabeth Keckley: Mr. Lincoln, could you come with me, please...? William Slade: Mrs. Keckley was a slave. Ask her if she was beaten. Tad Lincoln: Were you...? Abraham Lincoln: Tad... Elizabeth Keckley: I was beaten with a fire shovel when I was younger than you.
