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W.N. Bilbo
- William Seward: Gentleman, you have a visitor.
- W.N. Bilbo: [checking Latham's cards] Goddamn!
- W.N. Bilbo: [President Lincoln walks in] Well, I'll be fucked.
- Abraham Lincoln: I wouldn't bet against it, Mr... ?
- W.N. Bilbo: W.N.Bilbo.
- Abraham Lincoln: Yeah, Mr. Bilbo. Gentlemen...
- Robert Latham: Sir.
- W.N. Bilbo: Why are you here? No offense, but Mr. Seward's banished the very mention of your name, he won't even let us use fifty-cent pieces 'cause they got your face on 'em.
- Abraham Lincoln: The Secretary of State here tells me that, uh... you got eleven Democrats in the bag. That's encouraging.
- Richard Schell: Oh, you've got no cause to be encouraged. Sir. Uh...
- Robert Latham: Are we being... fired?
- Abraham Lincoln: [quoting Shakespeare's, "Henry IV, Part 2"] 'We have heard the chimes of midnight, Master Shallow.' I'm here to alert you boys that the great day of reckoning is nigh upon us.
- W.N. Bilbo: [on Fernando Wood making his speech] Jesus. When's this son of liberty, sum-a-bitch gonna sit down?
- W.N. Bilbo: Perhaps we need reinforcements. If Jeff Davis wants to cease hostilities, who do you think'll give a genuine solid shit to free slaves?
- William Seward: Get back to it... and gentlemen, good day.
- Richard Schell: We are at an impasse.
- Robert Latham: Tell Lincoln to deny the rumors, publicly.
- Richard Schell: Tell us what you expect of us.
- William Seward: I expect you to do your work. And to have sufficient sense and taste not to presume to instruct the President. Or me.
- Richard Schell: Is there a Confederate offer, or not?
- W.N. Bilbo: Congressmen come cheap. Few thousand bucks will buy you all you need.
- William Seward: The President would be unhappy to hear you did that.
- W.N. Bilbo: Well, will he be unhappy if we lose?
- Clay Hawkins: If my neighbors hear that I voted yes for nigger freedom and no to peace, they will kill me.
- W.N. Bilbo: A deal is a deal. You men know better than to piss your pants just because there's talk about peace talks.