It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace exclusively from the administration in power. It's essential to have other sources of information, to check those against… — 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 Image
There are some things that should not be leaked without authorization. — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 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 there will… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
