David Ben-Gurion Quotes

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• To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.
• 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 Arabs and take their places.
• Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit…
• If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them…
• The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.
• In the land of Israel was born the Jewish nation. There came an order to kill the religious and social spirit of the people. .…
• A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we…
• We must do everything to insure they [the Palestinians] never do return.... The old will die and the young will forget.
• 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…
• The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to…
• What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.
• The old will die and the young will forget.
• It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.
• Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don't personally believe in the God it postulates ... I am not religious, nor…
• The Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them -- to run away.
• The law is whatever people determine it to be.
• If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of…
• We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there…
• To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder.

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