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"Mr. Lincoln, I've Decided to Trust You!" script, 1967
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18 1ST READER - con'td in your ultimate innocence. You are a man who dealt in political expediencies. You played in the White House, the great arena. It's like Madison Square Garden for a fighter or Broadway for an actor." MR. LINCOLN "The things I did, were done in truth...others may construe ulterior motives; but I acted out of a moving profoundness of my conscience. I am clear with my God. 1ST READER "And apple pie too...Ha..Ha..that's the way I like to see you talk...This God...forgive me, I mean Your God...sort of personal voice, I bet." MR. LINCOLN "You mock me...I am not as you think... (still fumbling with the cane) 1ST READER (leaning towards Lincoln) "Suppose I say, I am who thinks." MR. LINCOLN "I should not believe you, any more than I believe what you've said about me." 1ST READER "You do believe in the phenomena of reverberating sound waves called echo. Would you be inclined to believe that the echo of a man's soul is his conscience." MR. LINCOLN "I would readily believe that...it could well be the voice within, telling us right from wrong." 1ST READER (imitating Lincoln) "Or left from right...If you stand behind truth, left is right...If you stand in front of truth, right is left.
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18 1ST READER - con'td in your ultimate innocence. You are a man who dealt in political expediencies. You played in the White House, the great arena. It's like Madison Square Garden for a fighter or Broadway for an actor." MR. LINCOLN "The things I did, were done in truth...others may construe ulterior motives; but I acted out of a moving profoundness of my conscience. I am clear with my God. 1ST READER "And apple pie too...Ha..Ha..that's the way I like to see you talk...This God...forgive me, I mean Your God...sort of personal voice, I bet." MR. LINCOLN "You mock me...I am not as you think... (still fumbling with the cane) 1ST READER (leaning towards Lincoln) "Suppose I say, I am who thinks." MR. LINCOLN "I should not believe you, any more than I believe what you've said about me." 1ST READER "You do believe in the phenomena of reverberating sound waves called echo. Would you be inclined to believe that the echo of a man's soul is his conscience." MR. LINCOLN "I would readily believe that...it could well be the voice within, telling us right from wrong." 1ST READER (imitating Lincoln) "Or left from right...If you stand behind truth, left is right...If you stand in front of truth, right is left.
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