Quotes by Daniel Ellsberg - Page 1

I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
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Agree
Kept Secrets
Secret
Should
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We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
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Arrogant
Foolish
Stupid
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You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.
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Truth
Telling The Truth
Thinking
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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Hero
Paper
Papers
Pentagon
Years
At Least One
Leak
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There are some things that should not be leaked without authorization.
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I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics.
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Fanatics
Found
Reasonable
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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Doe
Hero
Monarchy
Waiting
Empire
Wait
Till
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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War
Ghouls
Involved
Nuclear
Nuclear War
Secret
Vietnam
Nixon
North
North Vietnam
Plan
Threats
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We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.
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Faces
Needs
World
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It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.
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Authority
Comfortable
People
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EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.
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Assange
Paper
Wikileaks
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Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
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Administration
Government Lies
Hero
Lying
Officials
Pretty
Believed
Lie
Governments
Pretty Good
Rule
They Say
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It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.
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Leader
Lying
People
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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
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War
Congress
Constitution
Force
Giving
Hero
Representatives
Reverse
Public
Gives
Powers
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The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.
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Beauty
Hero
Secret
Pretty Good
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This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.
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Doe
Liberty
Trying
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WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.
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Government
Long
Media
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But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.
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Important
Keeping Secrets
Mind
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In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.
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Important
Nsa
Years
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I voted for Obama and I will probably vote for him again, as opposed to the Republicans. But I believe his administration in some key aspects is nothing other than the third term of the Bush administration.
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Believe
Republican
Vote
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Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that were necessary to end the Vietnam war will be necessary here. I think the American people will get us out of this war.
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War
People
Thinking
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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 against Iran, and to the very notion of a nuclear first-use 'option' by America or any other nation.
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Air
America
Iran
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The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting.
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Church
President
Reality
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My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
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War
Changed
Feelings
Left
Nuclear
Nuclear War
Revulsion
Weapons
Life War Me
Since
Iota
Objective
Occurrence
Overriding
Prevent
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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.
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War
Country
Decree
Doubt
Hero
Massive
No Doubt
Attack
Equivalent
Involve
Reichstag
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I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision.
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Answers
Citizens
Decision
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For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth is that the policies of the government is sometimes in conflict with that. In our country, patriotism should not be defined as obedience to an authority.
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Government
Country
Patriotic
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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
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Confrontation
Harm
Johnson
People
President
Way
Claiming
Lost People Way
Gulf
Hoping
Resulted
Several
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It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons.
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India And Pakistan
Israel
Russia
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I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents of his government or life in prison (in solitary confinement)-to awaken us to the danger of our loss of democracy to a total-surveilla nce state
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Government
Country
Loss
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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 to serve our country. The time to speak out is now.
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Loyalty
Time
Country
Patriotic
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Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.
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Men
Afghanistan
Choices
Civilians
Decent
Decent Man
Hands
Ordinary
Standards
Obama
Good Man Enough
Deaths
Presidents
Thousands
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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Courage
Capable
Careers
Establishment
Hero
Invited
Lunch
Millions
Turns
Two
Vietnam
People Doing See
Rare
Millions Of People
Picking
Remarkably
Rifle
Types
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It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.
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Fbi
Raised
Trash
Good Relationship Me
Good Relationship Your
Daniel
Letter
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The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our job for a boss who has usurped power and is acting as an outlaw government. It is the courage at last to face honestly the truth and reality of what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.
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Jobs
War
Lying
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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 one's own common sense, and to form your own judgment as to whether we ought to go to or persist in war.
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War
Common Sense
Information
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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 survival of life on earth; and to help build a world movement that will prevent a first use since Nagasaki of nuclear explosions, prevent or end interventions that could lead to such an event, and bring about a world free of nuclear weapons.
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Awards
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