Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam. — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
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… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me.… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that were necessary to… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“Whether rightly or wrongly, we are the only country in the world that believes it won a war by bombing—specifically by bombing… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies,… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“Throughout the Cold War such priorities reflected a command environment in which —it was regarded as overwhelmingly more important to assure a… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“For several crucial days, I believe, Kennedy and Khrushchev were each privately prepared to back down, “but not yet,” as they sparred… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“most Americans have never recognized as “terrorist” in precisely the same sense the firestorms caused deliberately by U.S. firebombing of Tokyo or… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“These two systems still risk doomsday: both are still on hair-trigger alert that makes their joint existence unstable. They are susceptible to… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share
“The cliché that “everything leaks; it all comes out in the New York Times eventually” is emphatically not true, above all for sensitive compartmented… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share
“The fact is that the estimate of fatalities, in terms of what was calculable at that time—even before the discovery of nuclear winter—was a… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share
It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share
“Khrushchev told Norman Cousins, a few months after the crisis, his reaction at the time: When I asked the military advisors if they could… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share
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… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share
“Dwight Eisenhower had secretly endorsed the blueprints of this multi-genocide machine. He had furthermore demanded, largely for budgetary reasons, that there be no other… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share
We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it. — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share
It is urgent to prevent new U.S. aggression. The time is now for the world to say 'no' to U.S. threats of air attack… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share
“Whether rightly or wrongly, we are the only country in the world that believes it won a war by bombing—specifically by bombing cities with… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share
“Throughout the Cold War such priorities reflected a command environment in which —it was regarded as overwhelmingly more important to assure a Go response… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share
