Dalton Trumbo Quotes
I'm not a fool and when I swap my life for liberty I've got to know in advance what liberty is, and whose idea of liberty we're talking about and just how much of that liberty we're going to have.
Trumbo was morally opposed to war. He also refused to name Hollywood communists to Congressional Committees during the Red Scare. He was then blacklisted from his occupation, screen writing.
Dalton Trumbo, 1905-1976, Screen Writer & Novelist, Member of the Hollywood 10 Blacklist Group, Johnny Got His Gun, 1938
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See Thomas Jefferson: {605051} for a somewhat similar notion.
Nguyen Ai Quoc was early pseudonym.
Monroe visited his daughter who was attending school in Paris. She observed that the French roads were much finer than those in America:
There is an close similarity between the Dutch revolutionary statements and that of the Founding Fathers of America. The Dutch rebels were very well aware of the American Revolution and the subsequent establishment of a republic, and emulated much of the American experience. They were the first foreign people to be inspired by the American Revolution. Many followed.
James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter and novelist who scripted many award-winning films, including Roman Holiday (1953), Exodus, Spartacus (both 1960), and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944). One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.
