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The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.
David Ben-Gurion
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David Ben-Gurion
Age: 87 †
Born: 1886
Born: October 16
Died: 1973
Died: December 1
Politician
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Dominion of Canada
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It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.
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Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
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If the antisemites want to hate, let them hate, and let them go to hell.
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Referring to Palestinian refugees: We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.
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To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder.
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After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.
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The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.
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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 else. The only thing that matters is that we can exist here on the land of our forefathers. And unless we show the Arabs that there is a high price to pay for murdering Jews, we won't survive.
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We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.
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We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return
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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 common good of all.
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If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.
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Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.
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It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.
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The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.
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The past is our very being.
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From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews.
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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 a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.
David Ben-Gurion
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
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We have preserved the Book, and the Book has preserved us.
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