Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Quotes

[from trailer]
Abraham Lincoln: History prefers legends to men. It prefers nobility to brutality, soaring speeches to quiet deeds. History remembers the battle, but forgets the blood. Whatever history remembers of me, if it remembers me at all, it shall only remember a fraction of the truth. For whatever else I am - a husband, a lawyer, a president - I shall always think of

myself first and foremost as a hunter.

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, but fails to cut it down]
Henry Sturgess: Well, clearly you don't hate him that much. What do you *really* hate?
Abraham Lincoln: [swings, but again the tree stays upright] 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: [after Henry has saved Abraham and Will from falling train] Thank you, Henry. I suppose... some vampires CAN be trusted.
Henry Sturgess: As can some men, Abraham.
[pauses]
Henry Sturgess: If the train was a decoy, where is the silver?
Will Johnson: This isn't the only railroad.

Abraham Lincoln: [Henry nods, Abraham grins knowingly] A wise man once taught me... always have a contingency plan.

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.

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.

Will Johnson: [entering the store, with his back to Lincoln] A stock boy reading a law book. What? Studying to be a lawyer?
Abraham Lincoln: As a matter a fact, I am.
Will Johnson: Alright, what about a little test? What's the law for free slaves in the north?
Abraham Lincoln: According to the Fugitive Slave

Act of 1793, Enforcing Article 4, Section 2 of the United States Constitution: "All runaway slaves must be returned to their owners." However, personal liberty laws state that: "Anyone born free cannot be taken under this act."
Will Johnson: [turning slowly] I heard a good woman once say, "Until we are all free, we're all slaves."