I love how Lincoln just keeps going with his story as Stanton storms out.

I guess that's why they needed to put George on the $1 bill. 😁

Made even funnier by the fact that the actor is an Englishman himself

Lincoln: casually explaining history Winfield Scott: no, no, no, wait, wait, wait!

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Did Ethan Allan actually say that?

Quaker women are so sensual: more than an inner light they have a volcano inside.

I love this, because while the Ethan Allen story is apocryphal, Lincoln's telling of the story is not. It was one of his favorite stories to disarm an audience.

He’s a wonderful storyteller by telling stories when he’s not busy and just having a break. He just wanted the country peacefully reunited and end the war, not just to ban slavery. He also loves to tell jokes and make people laugh. Even when he got shot, he loved watching plays, as I do. I too love to laugh. (Mary Poppins reference, eh?!)

There is no Daniel Day Lewis in this scene. There is only Old Abe

"Daniel Simpson Day has no grade point average. All courses incomplete."---Bruce McGill as Edwin Stanton in "Lincoln", and as D-Day in "Animal House".

I love my country lol

Congratulations on Weakest Link Brian!

My favorite part of this scene is always the part that gets cut, right after the story is finished and the telegraph begins transmitting. Everyone gathers around and Secretary of War Stanton returns, moving right up to the front with Lincoln to hear the news. In that moment, Lincoln offers his hand and Stanton clasps it, both of them hoping and praying the news is as they wish, that things have gone well. Stanton never truly liked Lincoln at the best of times, finding him irritatingly aloof, as is demonstrated several times in this film, but at the same time, he respected his President fiercely and was loyal to the utmost end. Stanton was with Lincoln as he lay dying, and when the President was pronounced dead, Stanton's voice trembled as he proclaimed "Now he is one with the angels." Edwin Stanton and Abraham Lincoln were not friends in any sense, and yet there was a deep respect and profound loyalty to one another that almost transcends the bonds of friendship. God bless both of them.

Undoubtedly if Lincoln were to have seen the movie, he would have been embarrassed at the hagiographic treatment of himself, but he would have absolutely loved this scene. I could totally see Lincoln saying, in response to his opinion on the movie, winking and laughing "I really liked the scene where I said "shit".

Only an American can truly understand and love that joke.

Thank You Quakers for all you have done in the abolitionist Movement!

George Gray asking a question about the Price is Right!

Ah, folksy Lincoln telling the story about a man who rebelled against his government, attacked said government's soldiers while they occupied a fort built and owned by the same government, all in an attempt to form a new country with its own government separate from the one which had claimed authority over him up to that point. It's a great story, told with good humor, and is even more humorous considering Lincoln was levying a brutal war against "rebels" who were essentially fighting for the same type of separation that Ethan Allen had fought to achieve from the British Empire scarcely 90 years previously.

such a great joke

I love that kid.

I love that story too. Born and raised in Western Canada but I memorized the Gettysburg address. A lifelong fan of AL.

Teammates: 1. Jill 2. Gregory 3. Madison 4. Carolyn 5. Brian 6. Celina

The shot of Washingtons portrait at the end of the end of the story is like "really? Sigh"

The irony does not escape me. An Englishman playing an American talking trash about Englishmen.

God is Love!!

Carolyn got 6th place Jill got 5th place Madison got 4th Gregory got 3rd Celina got 2nd Brian got 1st

Lincoln, by all accounts, was a warm, affable person who loved anecdotes and jokes. Despite his lifelong battle with depression, Lincoln was generally a jovial person who loved to converse, and could make a connection with seemingly anyone. It’s no wonder he was a master campaigner, an excellent debater, and an extremely savvy politician. But, no doubt, one you would absolutely love to sit down with and have a Coke with today (he also didn’t drink alcohol).

Esto si me da algo de cosa Pero de ese momento ese tipo ya no le daba para el free fire le estoy diciendo de broma en realidad el pobrecito si se murió

Gary Cooper, Robert Fuller, Billy Curtis, Chuck Cortney, Frank Jenks, Doug McClure, Edward Andrews, Phyllis Love, Norman Leavitt, and Anthony Perkins to name a few...

we need some Lincoln humor like this to ignore Joe Biden and his so called fuuny humor.

Aww he’s so cute

I love how angry Stantin gets when he storms out. Regardless, that was his man to the end.

❤ 😂

Touche !

Some of Hollywood’s best dialogue. Would that today’s writers were half as good.

The fact that he’s British makes it every funnier…an absolute legend.

I don't think the USA has ever had the Charisma of Abraham Lincoln. Oh, how I wish we had such a president right now...

This is my new ring tone & “ i love it !” 🤠

I'm not convinced the old man at the end wasn't just asleep with his eyes open

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So true

Bruce McGill, who plays Stanton, got his first big role playing Daniel Day (“D-Day”) in National Lampoon’s Animal House. Some props to a fine character actor who has had a long, varied and versatile career!

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i dont know what more funny the story or that the secratary of war who cant bear another one of presidents stories 🤣

I love that man, Mr. Lincoln. Thank you, Mr. Day-Lewis, for playing our president so honorably.