“Lincoln” quotes
(2012)
Steven Spielberg
directed this movie
in 2012
Title Lincoln
Year 2012
Director Steven Spielberg
Genre Drama, History, War, Biography
Year 2012
Director Steven Spielberg
Genre Drama, History, War, Biography
Plot – This dramatic movie examines the last tumultuous months of the sixteenth president of the United States. The nation is divided by war and by the winds of change. Lincoln's policy aims to end the war, to unite the country and to abolish slavery. He has the moral courage to do that and he's fiercely determined to succeed. His choices in this critical moment will change the fate of future generations.
All actors – Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, John Hawkes, Jackie Earle Haley, Bruce McGill, Tim Blake Nelson, Joseph Cross, Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Peter McRobbie, Gulliver McGrath, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Boris McGiver, David Costabile, Stephen Spinella, Walton Goggins, David Warshofsky, Colman Domingo, David Oyelowo, Lukas Haas, Dane DeHaan, Carlos Thompson, Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, Byron Jennings, Julie White, Charmaine White, Ralph D. Edlow, Grainger Hines, Richard Topol, Walt Smith, Dakin Matthews, James 'Ike' Eichling, Wayne Duvall, Bill Raymond, Michael Stanton Kennedy, Ford Flannagan, Robert Ayers, Robert Peters, John Moon, Kevin Lawrence O'Donnell, Jamie Horton, Joe Dellinger, Richard Warner, Elijah Chester, Dave Hager, Sean Haggerty, Mike Shiflett, Gregory Itzin, Stephen Dunn, Stephen Henderson, Chase Edmunds, John Hutton, Robert Ruffin, Drew Sease, John Lescault, Scott Wichmann, Adam Driver, Jean Kennedy Smith, Shirley Augustine, Sarah Wylie, Margaret Ann McGowan, Hilary Montgomery, Asa-Luke Twocrow, Lancer Dean Shull, Robert Wilharm, Kevin Kline, John Jones, Paul Gowans, Joseph Miller, John Bellemer, Mary Dunleavy, Christopher Evan Welch, Alan Sader, Gannon McHale, Ken Lambert, Thomas K. Belgrey, Ted Johnson, Don Henderson Baker, Raynor Scheine, Armistead Wellford, Michael Ruff, Rich Wills, Stephen Bozzo, Christopher Alan Stewart, Teddy Eck, Todd Fletcher, Charles Kinney, Joseph Carlson, Michael Goodwin, Edward McDonald, Jim Batchelder, Gregory Hosaflook, Joe Kerkes, William Kaffenberger, Larry Van Hoose, C. Brandon Marshall, David Russell Graham, Benjamin Shirley, Henry Kidd, Joseph Frances Filipowski, Thomas Aldridge, Sidney Blackmer Jr., Billy Caldwell, Glenn T. Crone, Martin Dew, Theodore Ewald, Todd Hunter, Joe Inscoe, Raymond H. Johnson, Gary Keener, Randolph Meekins, Frank Moran, Charley Morgan, Chad Pettit, Barry Privett, Leslie Rogers, Marcello Rollando, Keith Tyree, Kevin J. Walsh, Robert Wray, S. Epatha Merkerson, Christopher Boyer, Stephen Dunford, David Doersch, Christopher Cartmill, Robert Shepherd, , Misan Akuya, Sheree Ali, Randy Allen, Aaron Angus, Walker Babington, Logan Bennett, Nathan Bieri, Jacob Brankley, Ryland Breeding, Benjamin M. Brown, Leon Addison Brown, Paul W. Carroll, Chris Condetti, Paul D'Elia, Skye Dennis, John Dever, Brian Elder, Spencer Ellis, Jeff Elmore, Mark Elrod, Mark Falvo, Dennis Farrell, Daniel Fissmer, David Foster, Keiston France, Terry Menefee Gau, David Gibbs, Chance Gibson, Katherine Gray, Dot Gregory, Israel David Groveman, Lucas N. Hall, Vonn Harris, Jack Hoke, Bob Hurley, Kevin Inouye, Shaun Irving, Don Johnson, Shawn Everett Jones, James Judice, Stephen L. Kolb, Reese Land, T. Alloy Langenfeld, Jon Michael Lawrence, David Leehy, Lance Lemon, J. Emerson McGowan, Stephen McKenna, Alexander McPherson, Jim Meisner Jr., Adrian Nanney, Robert Lucas Nelson, Joseph Patrick O'Connell, Dakota Oher, Matthew Pabo, Ken Peebles, Melondy Phillips, Laura Rikard, Brian Schools, Matthew Sims, Leigh Spofford, Christopher Stephens, Jeffrey Stockham, Stephen Szibler, Bryan Veronneau, Charles West, Ryan Wick, Philip N. Williams, Skylor Williams, Jim Ed Wills, John T. Witt
show all“Lincoln” Quotes 19 quotes
“The greatest measure of the Nineteenth Century. Passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.”
“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.”
“Trust? Gentlemen, you seem to have forgotten that our chosen career is politics.”
“Each of us has made it possible for the other to do terrible things.”
“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!”
“I don't hold with equality in all things, just equality before the law, nothing more.”
“It's not illegal to bribe congressmen. They starve otherwise.”
“Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?”
“Slavery is the only insult to the natural law.”
"Appropriate? George Washington's likeness in a water closet?" "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.".
“Abolishing slavery by constitutional provisions settles the fate for all coming time. Not only of the millions now in bondage, but of unborn millions to come.”
“I can't accomplish a goddamn thing of any worth until we cure ourselves of slavery and end this pestilential war!”
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