Daniel Ellsberg

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

— Daniel Ellsberg

#does #empire #monarchy #overt #see

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. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#comes #fact #far #good #judgment

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

— Daniel Ellsberg

#i #kept #secret #should #things

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#good #governments #lie #look #nothing

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

— Daniel Ellsberg

#i #involved #knew #making #nixon

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

#constitution #exclusively #force #gives #only

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

— Daniel Ellsberg

#leak #least #like #papers #pentagon

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

— Daniel Ellsberg

#foolish #right #were #young