Lincoln

Lincoln2012

Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 150 minutes

Lincoln is a 2012 historical film about the the final four months of Lincoln's life, focusing on the President's efforts in January 1865 to have the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (which abolished slavery) passed by the Unite… more »



Abraham Lincoln:
[discussing the terms of Lee's surrender with Grant] Once he surrenders, send his boys back to their homes and their farms, their shops.

Ulysses S. Grant:
Yes, sir, as we discussed.

Abraham Lincoln:
Liberality all around. Not punishment, I don't want that. And their leaders, Jeff and the rest of them, they escape, leave the country while my back's turned, that wouldn't upset me none. When peace comes, it mustn't just be hangings.

Ulysses S. Grant:
[silently observing Lincoln for a moment] By outward appearance, you're ten years older than you were a year ago.

Abraham Lincoln:
Hm. [nods] Some weariness has bit at my bones. I never seen the like of it before, what I seen today. [almost to himself] 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've needed to see it close when you decided to come down here.

Abraham Lincoln:
Hm. [stands, grasps Grant's outstretched hand with both of his own] 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.

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