- Abraham Lincoln: You know, Ann, I... I've always done a lot of dreaming. And lately it seems when I dream, your face gets mixed up in it.
- Ann Rutledge: Does it really, Abe? Tell me about them, Lincoln.
- Abraham Lincoln: Well, I... I feel as though I'm going to be seeing your face 'til the day I die. Course, I know that that'll be pretty hard on you to have to look at my face that long.
- Ann Rutledge: Everybody to their own opinion.
- Abraham Lincoln: Hmm?
- Ann Rutledge: Well, I... I think it's the dearest, kindest, most beautiful face in the whole world.
- Abraham Lincoln: Oh, Ann, Ann. Course, I know that's just flattery, but I love it.
- [death scene]
- Ann Rutledge: I know the truth, dear. It's goodbye.
- Abraham Lincoln: No, no, Ann, dear. You're not going to leave me. I won't let you!
- Ann Rutledge: We must be brave, dear...
- [looking up to the heavens]
- Ann Rutledge: Don't take me away. Don't take me away! It's so dark and lonesome!
- Abraham Lincoln: Ann, you mustn't let go.
- Ann Rutledge: If they'd sing, I wouldn't be so afraid.
- [a chorus of "Sweet By and By" swells up in the background]
- Ann Rutledge: We will meet there, dear.
- Abraham Lincoln: I've hung my hat and here it stays till they knock it off with a bayonet. From now on, Mary, I'm going to run this war!
- [an aide suggests that General Lee surrender]
- Gen. Robert E. Lee: [Grasping sword] Surrender? My poor army! Why I'd rather die a thousand deaths than to do that to them.
- Aide: There, there, General. You must lie down and rest.
- Gen. Robert E. Lee: [Introspectively] Rest... that's a beautiful word.
- Offut: There he is! Ugliest, laziest, smartest man in New Salem. Ain't ya, Abe?
- Abraham Lincoln: Well, I don't mind my face; I'm behind it. It's the people in front that get jarred.
- Abraham Lincoln: You know, I feel like little Jimmy Watkins. He got a hunk of gingerbread the other day and said, 'I guess there's nobody loves gingerbread like I does and gets so little of it.'
- Ann Rutledge: Oh, Abe.
- Abraham Lincoln: Ann, will you... will you marry me? I mean, of course, when I get out of debt and can support you?
- Ann Rutledge: Well, you know, Abe, I've intended to for a long while. That is, of course, if you ask me.
- Abraham Lincoln: You... you mean...?
- Ann Rutledge: Yes, Abe... you've got your gingerbread.
- Boy seeing baby Abe: Shucks, he'll never amount to nothin', no how!
- Townsman in general store: [after Lincoln has beat Armstrong and others] He said he was a peaceful man. He's been as peaceful as a wildcat.
- Abraham Lincoln: [to Ann] Well, my old daddy taught me how to work, but he never taught me how to like it.
- Abraham Lincoln: Miss Todd, you thought my face was funny, and the way I dressed was funnier, but the joke's on you.
- Mary Todd Lincoln: Why? I don't understand.
- Abraham Lincoln: Wait'll yuh dance with me.
- Abraham Lincoln: [to Mary] You need a lotta patience to put up with me, Mary, but if anyone can do it, I'm sure you're the one.
- Lincoln adviser: Oh, by the way, Mrs. Lincoln, have you met General Grant?
- Mary Todd Lincoln: [Laconically] Ah met'em. Took us a week to get the smoke out of the curtains.
- Abraham Lincoln: [Referring to Reconstruction] We're going to take them back as if they've never been away.