When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear. Dalton Trumbo More Quotes by Dalton Trumbo More Quotes From Dalton Trumbo One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one Dalton Trumbo advantages-and-disadvantages obliged disadvantages Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly an airplane. Most things are just the reverse from what people think. The higher you are the safer you are. The Earth down there, that, that-s your enemy because once you hit that, boy, you splatter. Dalton Trumbo airplane boys thinking 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 leeches may bankers I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of. Dalton Trumbo working-class class 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 bombs sake sleep 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 Dalton Trumbo brother kings years What's so noble about being dead? Dalton Trumbo noble 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 honest air feet Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead? Dalton Trumbo sunshine dumb fear 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 Dalton Trumbo motion-pictures contracts one-day There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all. Dalton Trumbo running average night 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 time joy school Goodbye, my love, my life. Goodbye, goodbye. Dalton Trumbo love-of-my-life good-life goodbye Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. Dalton Trumbo gift democracy government business I fought fire with oil. Dalton Trumbo fought oil fire Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all. Dalton Trumbo you i-believe-in i-believe believe The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. Dalton Trumbo enemies who trust people We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that? Dalton Trumbo get free slave army
