Dalton Trumbo Quotes

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.

Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen.

Goodbye, my love, my life. Goodbye, goodbye.

What's so noble about being dead?

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread.