Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Daniel Ellsberg
Born: April 7, 1931
Died: June 16, 2023 (aged 92)
Bio: Daniel Ellsberg was an activist and United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers.
Known for:
- Papers on the war (1972)
- Risk, ambiguity, and decision (1962)
- Doomsday Machine (2017)
Daniel Ellsberg Quotes