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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
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David Ben-Gurion
Age: 87 †
Born: 1886
Born: October 16
Died: 1973
Died: December 1
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Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.
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It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.
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The past is our very being.
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After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.
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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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If the antisemites want to hate, let them hate, and let them go to hell.
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The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
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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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You must talk to us as equals, or not talk to us at all.
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We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.
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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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Referring to Palestinian refugees: We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.
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We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.
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If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.
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The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.
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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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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
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