Young Mr. Lincoln
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:06:03
The rights of life,
reputation and liberty.

:06:07
The rights to acquire
and hold property.

:06:14
"Wrongs are violations
of those rights".

:06:21
By jing, that's all there is to it.
:06:24
Right and wrong.
:06:29
Maybe I ought to begin
to take this up serious.

:06:33
Hello, Mr. Lincoln.
:06:35
- Abe.
- Well, hello, Ann.

:06:40
Give me a minute
to try and untangle myself.

:06:45
Aren't you afraid you'll put your eyes out
reading like that upside-down?

:06:48
Trouble is, Ann, when I'm standin' up
my mind's lyin' down.

:06:53
When I'm lyin' down,
my mind's standin' up.

:06:56
Of course, allowin' I got a mind.
:06:58
You've a wonderful mind, Abe,
and you know it.

:07:03
River sure looks pretty today, ain't it?
:07:07
You think a lot about things,
don't you?

:07:10
Well, my brain gets to itchin' inside sometimes,
I gotta scratch it.

:07:14
Father says you've
a real head on your shoulders...

:07:17
and a way with people too.
:07:19
He says it's not all
just making them laugh.

:07:23
They remember what you say
because it's got sense to it.

:07:26
Mr. Rutledge
is a mighty fine man, Ann...

:07:28
but if you ask me...
:07:30
I'm more like the old horse
the fella's tryin' to sell.

:07:34
Sound of skin and skeleton
and free from faults and faculties.

:07:38
Oh, I know how smart you are.
:07:41
How ambitious you are too.
:07:43
- Ambitious?
- You are, deep down underneath.

:07:46
Even if you won't admit it.
:07:50
Gotta have education these days
to get anywhere.

:07:53
I never went to school
so much as a year in my whole life.

:07:56
Oh, but you've educated yourself.
:07:58
You've read poetry
and Shakespeare and -


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