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 Copy Share Image
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? — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of. — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“They died crying in their minds like little babies. They forgot the thing they were fighting for the thing they were dying for. They… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them. — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“Have you ever noticed how many fences there're getting to be? And the signs they got on them: no hunting, no hiking, no admission,… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving. — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a special kind… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all. — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
