Daniel Ellsberg Quotes and Sayings
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We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant,
but we were right.
- Daniel Ellsberg

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

I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
- Daniel Ellsberg

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

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

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

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

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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

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

President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the
Tonkin Gulf not only once,
but several times, with the, with a lot of his people
hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had.
And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
- Daniel Ellsberg

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

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

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

We were given:
Two hands to hold.
Two legs to walk.
Two eyes to see.
Two ears to listen.
But why only one heart?
Because the other was given to someone else.
For us to find.
- Anonymous

Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault

I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller

If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo

We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley

I won't miss you.
I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most unhappiness comes from resisting life.
Occasionally, you have such a strong commitment
to changing the world order that it is worth
struggling against the flow of life.
But don't live your life as if each minor happening
were a matter of life and death.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates

If self-validation were our
most significant societal measure -
we would give trophies to ourselves.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I know why families were created with all their imperfections.
They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,
so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.
Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
- Max Lucado

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what
you were worrying about one year ago today.
- E. Joseph Cossman

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado

Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow

So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith

Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung

While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller

The journey between what you once were
and who you are now becoming
is where the dance of Life really takes place.
- Barbara De Angelis

All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel

Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

What If Every Day Were Your Day -
Celebrate Whimsey Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be;
and if it were so, it would be;
but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
- Lewis Carroll

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be.
Everybody has their own path.
It's laid out for you.
It's just up to you to walk it.
- Justin Timberlake

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate.
The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we.
Set small goals and build upon them.
- Lee Haney

The best minds are not in government.
If any were, business would steal them away.
- Ronald Reagan

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
- George William Russell

Doubt is part of all religion.
All the religious thinkers were doubters.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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