Daniel Ellsberg Quotes

A collection of quotes by Daniel Ellsberg.

Daniel Ellsberg is an American activist and former military analyst known for his significant role in releasing the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Born in 1931, Ellsberg served as a U.S. Marine officer and later worked for the RAND Corporation, a research institute. He became disillusioned with the Vietnam War and leaked classified documents to the media, exposing government deception. These papers provided evidence of the U.S. government's secretive decision-making during the conflict. Ellsberg was subsequently charged with violations of the Espionage Act, but his case was dismissed due to governmental misconduct. He remains an influential figure in whistleblowing and activism.

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

Benjamin Carson

Beauty

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

Courage