"We've got new generals, our leaders are new/They sit and they argue and all that they do/Is sell their own colleagues/And ride upon their backs/Or jail them, or break them/Or give them all the ax/Screaming in language that no one understands/Of the rights that we grab with our own bleeding hands/When we wiped out the bosses/And stormed down the wall/Of the prison they told us would outlast us all!"

"Clifford Rose - Abbé du Coulmier"

"Michael Williams - Herald"

"Charles Middleton — Tom Lincoln"

"Sonny Bupp — Willie Lincoln (uncredited)"

"Elisabeth Risdon — Sarah Lincoln"

"Trevor Bardette — John Hanks"

"Syd Saylor — John Johnston"

"Louis Jean Heydt — Mentor Graham"

"Clem Bevans — Ben Mattling"

"Harlan Briggs — Denton Offut"

"Harvey Stephens — Ninian Edwards"

"Howard Da Silva — Jack Armstrong"

"Alan Baxter — Billy Herndon"

"Dorothy Tree — Elizabeth Edwards"

"Mary Howard de Liagre — Ann Rutledge"

"Aldrich Bowker — Judge Bowling Green"

"Minor Watson — Joshua Speed"

"Maurice Murphy — John McNeil"

"Raymond Massey — Abraham Lincoln"

"Gene Lockhart — Stephen A. Douglas"

"George Rosener — Dr. Chandler"

"Ruth Gordon — Mary Todd Lincoln"

"[discussing why he can't face Mary Todd before his marriage to her] I'd have to tell her that I have hatred for her infernal ambition. That I don't want to be ridden and driven onward and upward through life with her whip bashing me and her spurs digging in me. If her poor little soul craves importance in life let her marry Stephen Douglas. He's ambitious too. I want only to be left alone."

"[to Billy Herndon] Careful. Billy, you've got great fires in yuh, but you're puttin' 'em out fast."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. The government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."

"Mentor Graham: Well, Abe, there are always two occupations open to those who have failed at everything else: school teaching and politics."

"Lincoln's Cook: President of the United States! If they get him back there into Washington, he won't ever come out alive."

"Jack Armstrong: [to the crowd] I tell you, you all ought to listen to the judge. He got a round belly but a level head. No one can do nothin' with me without lickin' me first!"

"Georges Corraface - Mohsen"

"Mony Rey - Ameh Bozorg"

"Roshan Seth - Houssein the Smuggler"

"Sarah Badel - Nicole (Swiss diplomat)"

"Sheila Rosenthal - Mahtob Mahmoody"

"[to Betty] Gardens have always had a special place in Persia throughout our history. In fact, the word "paradise" is a Persian word. It's hard to believe, isn't it, that the idea of paradise will always be intimately connected with Iran. Whenever I think of what's happening to my country, I try to remember its gardens."

"[to Betty] Nananana Eempossibill, Mahtob/Tob goes to father."

"Sally Field - Betty Mahmoody"

"Addison Randall — Johnny Moon"

"Alfred Molina - Sayed Bozorg "Moody" Mahmoody"

"Dorothy Burgess — Mrs. Peters"

"Clancy Cooper — Marcus"

"Arline Judge — Helen Martin"

"Roger Clark — Frank Donovan"

"Robin Raymond — Rita Randall"

"Barbara Pepper — Ruth"

"Richard Roxburgh - Colonel Stelzer"