Pentagon Papers Quotes

#1. The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Anthony Lewis

#2. I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

Floyd Abrams

#3. In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.

Alan Dershowitz

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

Daniel Ellsberg

#5. In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material, and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.

Daniel Ellsberg

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

Daniel Ellsberg

#7. There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.

Noam Chomsky

#8. During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.

Ronnie Wood

#9. Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

Haim Ginott

#10. And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

E. E. Cummings

#11. The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.

Robin McKinley

#12. A pear should come to the table popped with juice,
Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms
Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

Wallace Stevens

#13. Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.

Kate Milford

#14. Lord, help me to begin to begin.

George Whitefield

#15. Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

Alexander Berkman

#16. While shooting 'The Unit', I went to the Middle East twice to see the troops. I met some great men and women.

Max Martini