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Former Prime Minister Of Israel Inspirational Quotes (243)

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We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.
Yitzhak Rabin
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Close to 80 percent of all terrorist activity in Samaria was directed and financed either by Hizbullah or the Iranians. Iran continues to increase its involvement in terror attacks inside Israel, particularly through a small but radical minority of Israeli Arabs which Iran supports and directs.
Ariel Sharon
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Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.
Ariel Sharon
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Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan.
Yitzhak Rabin
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You don't make friends with friends. You have got to make friends with your enemies.
Yitzhak Rabin
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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 he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.
Golda Meir
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We did not think that [Egyptian President] Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.
Yitzhak Rabin
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It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir
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I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won't compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people.
Ariel Sharon
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Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.
Ariel Sharon
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I am for lasting peace... United, I believe, we can win the battle for peace. But it must be a different peace, one with full recognition of the rights of the Jews in their one and only land: peace with security for generations and peace with a united Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of the Jewish people in the state of Israel forever.
Ariel Sharon
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We have the right to ensure our security, especially when it is possible to reach agreement on a political solution.
Yitzhak Rabin
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Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.
Yitzhak Rabin
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Free women and men everywhere must wage an incessant campaign so that these human values become a generally recognized and practised reality. We must regretfully admit that in various parts of the world this is not yet the case. Without those values and human rights the real peace of which we dream is jeopardized.
Menachem Begin
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Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And forever.
Menachem Begin
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We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.
Yitzhak Rabin
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I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.
Moshe Sharett
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Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?
Ehud Olmert
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Golda Meir
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It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
Yitzhak Rabin
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I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.
Ehud Olmert
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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
Golda Meir
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