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14 quotes by Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is an activist and former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. He is also known for...
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see... →

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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

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We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

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Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

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My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the... →

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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

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Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of... →

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The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty... →

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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the... →

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I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.

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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or... →

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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping... →

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