Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Quotes

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a television show that debuted in 1970 . Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ended in 1970.

It features Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov, and Jim Lemley as producer, Henry Jackman in charge of musical score, and Caleb Deschanel as head of cinematography.

Each episode of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is 105 minutes long. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Lux Haney-Jardine as Abraham Lincoln, Dominic Cooper as Henry Sturgess, Anthony Mackie as Will Johnson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Mary Todd Lincoln, Rufus Sewell as Adam, Marton Csokas as Jack Barts, Joseph Mawle as Thomas Lincoln, Robin McLeavy as Nancy Lincoln, Jimmi Simpson as Joshua Speed, Erin Wasson as Vadoma, Lux Haney-Jardine as Young Abraham Lincoln, and Alan Tudyk as Stephen A. Douglas.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Quotes

Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Mary Todd Lincoln

• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "Well, I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard. My father used to say: plant your feet and stand firm. The only question is where to put your feet."

• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "I came to Springfield for some one different. Some whose life was a bit more adventorous, and well -- My apologies. I'm never this --"
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Honest?"
• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "Rude."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Miss Todd, may I speak candidly? I, too, came here to better myself."

• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "I've spoken to the Senator. He'll have you out soon."
• (Anthony Mackie) "You're far too kind, Miss Todd."
• (Anthony Mackie) "And he's far too ugly to have a woman like you."
• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "Well, I think plain-looking men are the best. It's why the Lord made so many of them."

• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "You have to win this war -- If you don't, than all of it -- then our son's death will have been for nothing."

• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "It's called a dance. If we were meant to sit down, they would've call it something else."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Yes, I suppose they would have."

• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "Lincoln. We'll be late for the theater."

Lux Haney-Jardine as Abraham Lincoln

• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Thank you, Henry. I suppose -- some vampires CAN be trusted."
• (Dominic Cooper) "As can some men, Abraham."
• (Dominic Cooper) "If the train was a decoy, where is the silver?"
• (Anthony Mackie) "This isn't the only railroad."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "A wise man once taught me -- always have a contingency plan."

• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "My mother was murdered."
• (Dominic Cooper) "And if I teach you how to murder her murderer -- so what? How will that honor her memory? How will that benefit the next boy whose mother was taken?"

• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Miss Todd, you are a woman of ravishing resourcefulness."
• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "Mr. Lincoln, you have no idea."

• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "History prefers legends to men. It prefers nobility to brutality, soaring speeches to quiet deeds. History remembers the battle, and forgets the blood. However history remembers me, if it does at all, it shall only remember a fraction of the truth."

• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "History prefers legends to men. It prefers nobility to brutality, soaring speeches to quiet deeds. History remembers the battle and forgets the blood. Whatever history remembers of me, if it remembers anything at all, it shall only be a fraction of the truth. For whatever else I am; a husband, a lawyer, a President; I shall always think of myself as a man who struggled against darkness."

• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "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."

• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "I shall kill them all."

• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "I'm sorry, Mary. I'm sorry I've kept you in the dark all these years -- I need you, Mary."
• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "I've waited a long time to hear you say those words."

• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "I hate that we were afraid."

• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "I leave in your trusted hands, my dear friend Henry -- this record that begins when I was just a boy."

• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "I don't know how he did it --"
• (Joseph Mawle) "Abraham -- you promise me -- you promise me you won't go and do anything foolish."

• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Do you really want the truth, Mary? -- Each and every night I go out -- hunting vampires."
• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "Well, how do you hunt these vampires?"
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "With an axe -- a special silver axe, of course."

• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "In the weeks that followed, Henry endeavored to impart a life time of vampire hunting secrets -- Their ability to adapt in sunlight. Their power to render themselves invisible. But most of all, he taught me how to destroy them."

Dominic Cooper as Henry Sturgess

• (Dominic Cooper) "Before you protect others from darkness, you must first be able to protect yourself. Your enemies have the power to render themselves invisible. You must have the ability to fight blind. To see without seeing."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Again."

• (Dominic Cooper) "You cannot take on slavery, Abraham. You cannot take on the whole south."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Why? Because of Adam?"
• (Dominic Cooper) "No."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Are you afraid of him?"
• (Dominic Cooper) "Because it is the only thing that has kept them sated all these years -- and you take that away and no one is safe."

• (Dominic Cooper) "If vengeance is all you seek, you will never be able to save mankind. Fight this war with me, not for one man but for the whole world -- Mr President."

• (Dominic Cooper) "There is darkness EVERYWHERE. You are not the only one who has lost everything."

• (Dominic Cooper) "Might I suggest we begin by -- closing the door."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Y-y-yeah, I'm sorry -- I didn't see anything."
• (Dominic Cooper) "Should we dive right in? Or were you finding Gabriella's egress too distracting?"
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "I'm sorry, sir but who are you?"
• (Dominic Cooper) "Who I am is Henry Sturges. And where you are is my home. And what happened -- I saved your life -- during you rather pathetic attempt at taking another's."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "What were you doing there and -- how did you know I would try to kill Barts?"
• (Dominic Cooper) "How? I watched this boy carry out his first long-awaited mission. Drunk, I might add."

• (Dominic Cooper) "You know I can restore the dead."
• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "Do it -- do it."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Mary --"
• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "Do it --"
• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "Your journal -- the one you always kept in your coat pocket -- I know I shouldn't have, Abe, but I needed to know what you were hiding --"
• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "If what you say is true, I beg you -- give us our little boy back."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Mary, he wouldn't be our little boy. He would be something else, something terrible. Trust me, you don't want that."
• (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) "You're asking me to trust you, after you lied to me for all these years?"
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "I did it to protect you, to protect our family."

• (Dominic Cooper) "So, Abe -- which one takes your fancy?"
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Actually, I haven't had the best luck with shooting irons."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "But -- I was a rail splitter."

• (Dominic Cooper) "My services aren't for sale."

• (Dominic Cooper) "Vampires have been in the new world for centuries. Slaughtering native tribes and early settlers."

• (Dominic Cooper) "I'd like you to chop this tree down, in a single swing."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "That tree? It's got to be more than a foot across. That's impossible."
• (Dominic Cooper) "But it isn't a tree. It's what you hate most in the world. So tell me, Mr. Lincoln: what do you hate?"
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "I hate Jack Barts."
• (Dominic Cooper) "Then strike him down."
• (Dominic Cooper) "Well, clearly you don't hate him that much. What do you really hate?"
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "I hate that my mother was taken away."
• (Dominic Cooper) "Inadequate."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "I hate that we were afraid."
• (Dominic Cooper) "And?"
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "That my mother, father, everyone that we knew, lived in fear."
• (Dominic Cooper) "Pathetic."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "I hate that I was too small."
• (Dominic Cooper) "Weak."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Yes."
• (Dominic Cooper) "And that you failed."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Yes."
• (Dominic Cooper) "To protect her."
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "Yes."
• (Dominic Cooper) "That you -- Let her die."
• (Dominic Cooper) "Power, Lincoln, real power, comes not from hate, but from truth."

Rufus Sewell as Adam

• (Rufus Sewell) "We are all slaves to something. I, to eternity. You, to you convictions. Others, to the color of their skin."

• (Rufus Sewell) "Why did you lie to me?"
• (Jimmi Simpson) "To get you all in one place. To finish you."

Marton Csokas as Jack Barts

• (Marton Csokas) "Adam, Adam. Let me explain."
• (Rufus Sewell) "Last one, Barts. I'm not coming up here to clean up your messes anymore."
• (Marton Csokas) "Yes, sir. I promise."

• (Marton Csokas) "That was unlucky. Might have put me out of my misery."

• (Marton Csokas) "Every so often, I think about what it would be like in the south."
• (Rufus Sewell) "So, where's Henry?"
• (Marton Csokas) "Yes, sir. We've been looking all over, sir. Searchin' high and low."
• (Rufus Sewell) "Low is more likely. Just find him, Barts -- Oh, and send a fresh crop south. We have a lot of mouths to feed."

• (Marton Csokas) "There are other ways to collect a debt."

Joseph Mawle as Thomas Lincoln

• (Joseph Mawle) "Look away, Abraham. It's not our place. Look away."

• (Joseph Mawle) "If you get one more penny fro me, Mr. Barts, it will come with a fist wrapped around it."

Jimmi Simpson as Joshua Speed

• (Jimmi Simpson) "I ever see you here again, I'll have your balls as a coin purse."

Anthony Mackie as Will Johnson

• (Anthony Mackie) "A stock boy reading a law book. What? Studying to be a lawyer?"
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "As a matter a fact, I am."
• (Anthony Mackie) "Alright, what about a little test? What's the law for free slaves in the north?"
• (Lux Haney-Jardine) "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.""
• (Anthony Mackie) "I heard a good woman once say, "Until we are all free, we're all slaves.""

Alan Tudyk as Stephen A. Douglas

• (Alan Tudyk) "Are you a voting man, Mr. Lincoln?"

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