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
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
If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can… — 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
Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed,… — 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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. — 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 the people.… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
