My activities, for which I gratefully accept this Award, are today what they have been for over thirty-five years and will be for the rest of my life: to counter governmental secrecy about the nuclear arms race that threatens the… — 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 information. It’s a cover story, designed both to hide and sustain the effectiveness of the overall secrecy system. (Edward Snowden was the first ever to expose a large amount of SCI, including massively unconstitutional and criminal… — 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 fantastic underestimate. More than forty years later, Dr. Lynn Eden, a scholar at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, revealed in Whole World on Fire71 the bizarre fact that the war planners of SAC and… — 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 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 be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country. — 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 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
