All David Ben-Gurion Quotes
- After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors. Eighty
- We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return Ensure
- We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the… Aim
- The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war. Arabs
- It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion. Create
- The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and… Been
- If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace] with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Arab
- No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long… Athens
- We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and rulers, and the… Africa
- Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to… Advantage
- In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace… Aggression
- We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the… All
- We have preserved the Book, and the Book has preserved us. Book
- We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is… Declare
- You must talk to us as equals, or not talk to us at all. All
- It's not enough to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow. Date
- Let me first tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the world says about Israel; it doesn't matter what they say about us anywhere… Anywhere
- When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel. Africa
- This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his country. After all,… All
- Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. Art