Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the sovereign public. It is a courageous, patriotic, and effective way… — 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
