Dalton Trumbo Quotes

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

 "Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility." ~ Dalton Trumbo

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

 "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." ~ Dalton Trumbo

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

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

 "A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not." ~ Dalton Trumbo

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

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

 "I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of." ~ Dalton Trumbo

 "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." ~ Dalton Trumbo

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

 "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." ~ Dalton Trumbo

 "Goodbye, my love, my life. Goodbye, goodbye." ~ Dalton Trumbo