Dalton Trumbo Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly in advance what we're getting killed for... so we can be sure after we've won your war that we've got the same kind of freedom we bargained for.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Mother, Country, War

• Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Morning, War, Coffee

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.23, Kensington Publishing Corp.

• 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

  War, Book, Men

  Dalton Trumbo, E. L. Doctorow (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.104, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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