Quotes by Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg

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.

Important

Keeping Secrets

Mind

EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.

Assange

Paper

Wikileaks

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.

Country

Government

Patriotic

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

Kept Secrets

Secret

Should

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.

Answers

Citizens

Decision

I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics.

Fanatics

Found

Reasonable

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

Country

Government

Loss

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.

Believe

Republican

Vote

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

Doe

Hero

Waiting

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.

Country

Hero

War

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America

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Assange

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Beauty

Believe

Careers

Choices

Church

Citizens

Comfortable

Common Sense

Country

Decision

Doe

Faces

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Feelings

Foolish

Found

Ghouls

Giving

Government

Government Lies

Hands

Hero

Important

India And Pakistan

Information

Iran

Israel

Jobs

Keeping Secrets

Kept Secrets

Leader

Liberty

Long

Loss

Loyalty

Lying

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Mind

Needs

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Quotes by Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg

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.

EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.

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.

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

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.

I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics.

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

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.

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

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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