Quotes

[from trailer]

Johnny Cash - Himself: And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder. I looked, and behold, it was Death, saying, "Come and see." And I saw... and Hell followed me.

[from trailer]

Henry Sturgess: If vengeance is all you seek, you will never be able to save mankind. Fight this war with me, not for one man but for the whole world... Mr President.

[from trailer]

Abraham Lincoln: I shall kill them all!

[last lines]

Henry Sturgess: A guy only gets that drunk when he wants to kiss a girl or kill a man. So which is it?

Abraham Lincoln: I'm sorry, Mary. I'm sorry I've kept you in the dark all these years... I need you, Mary.

Mary Todd Lincoln: I've waited a long time to hear you say those words.

Mary Todd Lincoln: [On April 14, 1865] Lincoln! We'll be late for the theater!

Jack Barts: [after Lincoln's missed shot] That was unlucky. Might have put me out of my misery.

Abraham Lincoln: I hate that we were afraid!

Henry Sturgess: [to Lincoln at the bar] Haven't you had enough?... A boy only gets this drunk when he wants to kiss a girl... or kill a man.

Henry Sturgess: [in the bath with Gabriella as Lincoln bursts in] Might I suggest we being by... closing the door.

Abraham Lincoln: [stammering as he backs out of the room] Y-y-yeah, I'm sorry... I didn't see anything!

Henry Sturgess: [coming out and walking through the house] Should we dive right in? Or were you finding Gabriella's egress too distracting?

Abraham Lincoln: I'm sorry, sir but who are you?

Henry Sturgess: Who I am is Henry Sturges. And where you are is my home. And what happened... I saved your life... during you rather pathetic attempt at taking another's.

Abraham Lincoln: What were you doing there and... how did you know I would try to kill Barts?

Henry Sturgess: How? I watched this boy carry out his first long-awaited mission. Drunk, I might add.

Mary Todd Lincoln: I came to Springfield for some one different. Some whose life was a bit more adventorous, and well... My apologies. I'm never this...

Abraham Lincoln: Honest?

Mary Todd Lincoln: Rude.

Abraham Lincoln: Miss Todd, may I speak candidly? I, too, came here to better myself.

Adam: [after Lincoln's attempt to help the slaves] Bravo, Mr. Lincoln! Bravo. You're even better then I've heard. A shame to sacrafice so many of my best men... but I needed to know if you were up to the task.

Abraham Lincoln: [being held down by Vadoma] What do you want with me?

Adam: To see you liberated. To see you rise up and destroy your oppressor.

Abraham Lincoln: [angrily] That's interesting coming from a slave owner!

Adam: Men have enslaved each other... since they invented gods to forgive them for doing it.

Adam: [on the train, after discovering the rocks] Why did you lie to me?

Joshua Speed: [seething] To get you all in one place! To finish you!

Abraham Lincoln: [journal entry] For what ever else I am, a husband, a lawyer... a president... I shall always think of myself as a man who struggle against the darkness.

Jack Barts: Every so often, I think about what it would be like in the south.

Adam: So, where's Henry?

Jack Barts: Yes, sir. We've been looking all over, sir. Searchin' high and low.

Adam: Low is more likely. Just find him, Barts... Oh, and send a fresh crop south. We have a lot of mouths to feed.

Jack Barts: Did you strike my friend here?

Thomas Lincoln: He was beating my son!

Jack Barts: Did you strike him, Lincoln?

Thomas Lincoln: They're not slaves and you know it.

Jack Barts: I suggest you get back to your work before you find yourself led away in chains.

Nancy Lincoln: Until every man is free, we are all slaves.

Young Abraham Lincoln: [at his mother's grave about Barts] I don't know how he did it...

Thomas Lincoln: [cutting in] Abraham... you promise me... you promise me you won't go and do anything foolish.

Henry Sturgess: I'd like you to chop this tree down in a single swing.

Abraham Lincoln: That tree? It's got to be more than a foot across. That's impossible.

Henry Sturgess: But it isn't a tree. It's what you hate most in the world. So tell me, Mr. Lincoln: what do you hate?

Abraham Lincoln: I hate Jack Barts.

Henry Sturgess: [motions to the tree] Then strike him down.

[Abe swings, chopping into the tree]

Henry Sturgess: Well, clearly you don't hate him that much. What do you *really* hate?

Abraham Lincoln: [swings] I hate that my mother was taken away.

Henry Sturgess: Inadequate.

Abraham Lincoln: [swings] I hate that we were afraid.

Henry Sturgess: And?

Abraham Lincoln: [swings] That my mother, father, everyone that we knew, lived in fear!

Henry Sturgess: Pathetic.

Abraham Lincoln: [swings] I hate that I was too small!

Henry Sturgess: Weak.

Abraham Lincoln: Yes!

Henry Sturgess: And that you failed.

Abraham Lincoln: Yes!

Henry Sturgess: To protect her.

Abraham Lincoln: Yes!

Henry Sturgess: That you... let her die.

[With a roar, Abe swings, chopping straight through the trunk of the tree and toppling it to the ground. Abe looks stunned]

Henry Sturgess: Power, Lincoln, *real* power, comes not from hate, but from truth.

Abraham Lincoln: Do you really want the truth, Mary?... Each and every night I go out... hunting vampires.

Mary Todd Lincoln: [after a moment of silence] Well, how do you hunt these vampires?

Abraham Lincoln: With an axe... a special silver axe, of course.

Adam: [scanning the paper about the headless bodies] This hunter is another of Henry's disciples?

Vadoma: They say he's a madman.

Adam: [mildly amused] I can't wait to meet him.

Henry Sturgess: [to Lincoln] If vengeance is all you seek, seek it elsewhere.

Abraham Lincoln: [in his journal] In the weeks that followed, Henry endeavored to impart a life time of vampire hunting secrets... Their ability to adapt in sunlight. Their power to render themselves invisible. But most of all, he taught me how to destroy them.

Henry Sturgess: Vampires have been in the new world for centuries. Slaughtering native tribes and early settlers.

Stephen A. Douglas: Are you a voting man, Mr. Lincoln?

[while Abe hangs upside down, helpless, the Pharmacist sharpens a razor and places a bowl underneath him]

Pharmacist: Don't worry, it'll only hurt for a moment or two... did you eat today?