Harvey Stephens credited as playing...
Ninian Edwards
- Ninian Edwards: [after he withdraws from politics] What'll yuh do, Abe?
- Abraham Lincoln: Judge Stuart's offered me a chance to work in his law office in Springfield. Course I don't know much about the law, but there's one thing I've learned here in politics... that ignorance is no obstacle to advancement. In fact, in some cases it's quite an advantage.
- Ninian Edwards: Mary, my dear, may I present our most eloquent citizen, Mr. Stephen Douglas.
- Mary Todd Lincoln: Mr. Douglas, I am honored.
- Stephen Douglas: Miss Todd, your brother-in-law has just now described me as eloquent. But alas, I must now prove him wrong. Standing as I am in the presence of such penetrating intelligence, such devastating charm, I am rendered speechless.
- Mary Todd Lincoln: [demurely] I can hardly believe it.