Lincoln (2012)

Jared Harris: Ulysses S. Grant

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• Abraham Lincoln : I never seen the like of it before, what I seen today. Never seen the like of it before.

  Ulysses S. Grant : You always knew that. What this was going to be. Intimate and ugly. You must have needed to see it close when you decided to come down here.

  Abraham Lincoln : We've made it possible for one another to do terrible things.

  Ulysses S. Grant : We've won the war. Now you have to lead us out of it.

• Ulysses S. Grant : By outward appearance, you're 10 years older than you were a year ago.

  Abraham Lincoln : Some weariness has bit at my bones.

• Ulysses S. Grant : If you want to discuss peace with President Lincoln, consider revisions.

  Alexander Stephens : If we're not to discuss a truce between warring nations, what in heaven's name can we discuss?

  Ulysses S. Grant : Terms of surrender.

• Ulysses S. Grant : [Grant hands the Confederate peace commissioner's proposal back to them, covered in scribbled notes]  Gentlemen, I suggest you work some changes into your proposal before you give it to the President.

  [Turns and walks away. Stephens follows] 

  Senator R.M.T. Hunter : We're eager to be on our way to Washington.

  Alexander Stephens : Mr Lincoln tell you to tell us this?

  Ulysses S. Grant : [Grant takes a cup of coffee from a steward]  It says 'securing peace for our two countries' and it goes on like that.

  Alexander Stephens : I don't know what you...

  Ulysses S. Grant : There's just one country. You and I, we're citizens of that country. I'm fighting to protect it from armed rebels.

  [Pats Stephen's shoulder and goes to sit down] 

  Ulysses S. Grant : From you.