"[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 t…"

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

"Jack Armstrong: [to the crowd] I tell you, you all ought to listen to the judge. He got a round belly but a level hea…"

"Raymond Massey — Abraham Lincoln"

"Gene Lockhart — Stephen A. Douglas"

"Ruth Gordon — Mary Todd Lincoln"

"Mary Howard de Liagre — Ann Rutledge"

"[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 i…"