"This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy."
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"Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood."
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"It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle."
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"A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader."
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"One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have."
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"It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it."
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"Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here."
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"Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves."
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"Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values."
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"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."
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"There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row."
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"Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing."
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"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."
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"My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom."
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"There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel."
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"A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!"
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"Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust."
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"I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war."
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"America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it's still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?"
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"You can't improve on saying nothing."
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