Citizens Quote by Daniel Ellsberg

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

— Daniel Ellsberg

There are some things that should not be leaked without authorization.

— Daniel Ellsberg

“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

“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

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

“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

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

— Daniel Ellsberg

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

“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

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

We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

— Daniel Ellsberg

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