Golda Meir Quotes

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• At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle…
• Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
• There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They…
• How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
• Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if…
• This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
• We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and…
• If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
• I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked,…
• We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
• It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
• It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to…
• Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
• There is no such thing as a Palestinian.
• There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
• Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.
• We don't want wars even when we win.
• Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
• There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
• There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.

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