The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace] with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
We do not wish and do not need to expel Arabs and take their places. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget, — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural:… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don't personally believe in the God it postulates ... I am… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision.… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Let me first tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the world says about Israel; it doesn't matter what they say… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
We must do everything to insure they [the Palestinians] never do return… The old will die and the young will forget. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
The Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them -- to run away. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel,… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
In the land of Israel was born the Jewish nation. There came an order to kill the religious and social spirit of… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
A partial Jewish State is not the end, but only the beginning. ... I am certain that we will not be prevented… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share
The assets of the Jewish National Home must be created exclusively through our own work, for only the product of the Hebrew labor can… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share
In the land of Israel was born the Jewish nation. There came an order to kill the religious and social spirit of the people.… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share
We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share
We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share
The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share
Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share
We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share
If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share
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