Lincoln | movie | 2012 | Official Trailer
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the str | dG1fVldwTXQyLVotZmM
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00:00We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under
00:17God shall have a new birth of freedom, that government of the people, by the people, for
00:23the people, shall not perish from the earth.
00:31We can't tell our people they can vote yes on abolishing slavery unless at the same time
00:36we can tell them that you're seeking a negotiated peace.
00:39It's either the amendment or this confederate peace.
00:41You cannot have both.
00:42How many hundreds of thousands have died during your administration?
00:45Congress must never declare equal those whom God created unequal.
00:50Leave the constitution alone.
00:53We are stepped out upon the world stage now, with the fate of human dignity in our hands.
00:59Blood's been spilt to afford us this moment, now, now, now.
01:09Abraham Lincoln has asked us to work with him to accomplish the death of slavery.
01:15No one's ever been loved so much by the people.
01:19Don't waste that power.
01:20This fight is for the United States of America.
01:29Do we choose to be born, or are we fitted to the times we're born into?
01:34Well, I don't know about myself.
01:36You may be.
01:38This settles the fate for all coming time, not only of the millions now in bondage, but
01:58of unborn millions to come.
02:04Shall we stop this bleeding?
02:07No.