The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. — 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 youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling… — 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
