Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.
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David Ben-Gurion
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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
The past is our very being.
In Israel in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.