Deeper Quote by Noam Chomsky

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted…

— Hugo Black

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

— Daniel Ellsberg

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the 'The New York Times' and…

— Floyd Abrams

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and…

— Floyd Abrams

Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war…

— H. R. McMaster

There are certainly some secrets the government needs to protect, but many of the most important clues about revolutions, nuclear transfers, and new military…

— David E. Sanger

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could…

— J William Fulbright

“Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend…

— Carl Sagan

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were…

— Carl Safina

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

— J. William Fulbright

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

— Kate Adie

WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the…

— Jemima Khan