The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied. — Golda Meir Hate Copy Share Image
We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient. — Golda Meir Military Copy Share Image
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else? — Golda Meir Children Copy Share Image
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. — Golda Meir Change Copy Share Image
We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. — Golda Meir Censorship Copy Share Image
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies. — Golda Meir Children Copy Share Image
There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions… — Golda Meir Before i die Copy Share Image
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be… — Golda Meir Alive Copy Share Image
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will… — Golda Meir Children Copy Share Image
Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to… — Golda Meir Bible Copy Share Image
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of… — Golda Meir Country Copy Share Image
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. — Golda Meir Art Copy Share Image
“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be… — Golda Meir Children Copy Share Image
How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on… — Golda Meir America Copy Share Image
A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. — Golda Meir Government Copy Share Image
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. — Golda Meir Ability Copy Share Image
I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour. — Golda Meir Diaries Copy Share Image
It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think. — Golda Meir Comedy Copy Share Image
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. — Golda Meir Battle Copy Share Image
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. — Golda Meir Comedy Copy Share Image
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. — Golda Meir Applause Copy Share Image
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children. — Golda Meir Children Copy Share Image
