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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

~Daniel Ellsberg

Topics: At Least One Every Leak Least Like Papers Pentagon Should Year

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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.

~Daniel Ellsberg

Topics: Afghanistan American Choice Civilians Deaths Decent Decent Man Decision Either Enough Good Hands He Lead Made Making Man Many Now Obama Ordinary Position Presidents Standards Those Thousands Will

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

~Daniel Ellsberg

Topics: Does Empire Monarchy See Till Us Wait You

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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.

~Daniel Ellsberg

Topics: Congress Constitution Force Gives Only Our Powers Public Representatives Reverse War

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We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

~Daniel Ellsberg

Topics: Arrogant Foolish Right Were Young

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

~Daniel Ellsberg

Topics: Did Involved Knew Making Nixon North Nuclear Nuclear War Plan Secret Threats Vietnam War

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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.

~Daniel Ellsberg

Topics: After Another Attack Country Day Days Doubt Equivalent Fire Involve Involving Iran Major Massive No Doubt Reichstag War Will Within

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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.

~Daniel Ellsberg

Topics: Anyone Because Been Before Daniel Going Good Had Letter Me Question Raised Relationship Room Same Show Them Through Trash Up Want Which Would Wrote Years Your Fbi

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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.

~Daniel Ellsberg

Topics: About Been Changed Feelings Had Iota Left Life Me My Life Never Nuclear Nuclear War Nuclear Weapons Objective Occurrence Prevent Since War Weapons

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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.

~Daniel Ellsberg

Topics: Being Capable Careers Courage Did Doing Establishment Invited Involved Iraq Lunch Millions Millions Of People Out People Picking Rare Remarkably Rifle Risking See Turns Two Types Up Vietnam

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Celebrity

Born: April 7th, 1931

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