David Ben-Gurion
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“If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert”
“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared”
“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
“Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.”
“In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles”
“Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”
“Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence”
“Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.”
“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”
“We must expel the Arabs and take their places.”