Lincoln (2012)
Stephen McKinley Henderson: William Slade
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Quotes
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Tad Lincoln : When you were a slave, Mr. Slade, did they beat you?
William Slade : I was born a free man. Nobody beat me except I beat them right back.
[Mrs. Keckley enters]
Elizabeth Keckley : Mr. Lincoln, could you come with me, please...?
William Slade : Mrs. Keckley was a slave. Ask her if she was beaten.
Tad Lincoln : Were you...?
Abraham Lincoln : [shakes his head] Tad...
Elizabeth Keckley : I was beaten with a fire shovel when I was younger than you.
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Robert Lincoln : I might not even want to be a lawyer.
Abraham Lincoln : It's a sturdy profession. And a useful one.
Robert Lincoln : Yes, and I want to be useful, but *now*, not afterwards.
Abraham Lincoln : [Slade hands Lincoln his formal gloves] I ain't wearing them things, Mr. Slade, they never fit right.
William Slade : The missus will have you wear 'em. Don't think about leaving 'em.
Robert Lincoln : You're delaying, that's your favorite tactic.
William Slade : [overlapping dialogue] Be useful...
Robert Lincoln : You won't tell me no,
William Slade : And stop distracting him.
Robert Lincoln : But the war will be over in a month, and you know it will!
Abraham Lincoln : I've found that prophesying is one of life's less prophet-able
[sic]
Abraham Lincoln : occupations.
[Slade chuckles]