Daniel Ellsberg Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• 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.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Jobs, War, Lying

• 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

  Country, War, Hero

• 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.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  War, Common Sense, Information

• 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

  War, Hero, Giving

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

  Daniel Ellsberg

  War, Ghouls, Secret

• 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.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  War, Thinking, People

  "War Protesters Arrested Near Bush Ranch", www.foxnews.com. November 23, 2005.

• 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

  War, Feelings, Nuclear

  "Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years" by Daniel Ellsberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2009.

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