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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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Dominion of Canada
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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.
David Ben-Gurion
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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The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.
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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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The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.
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We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return
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We have preserved the Book, and the Book has preserved us.
David Ben-Gurion
The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.
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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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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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It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.
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From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews.
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You must talk to us as equals, or not talk to us at all.
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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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To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder.
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Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land. . . . We are ready for exchange for peace.
David Ben-Gurion
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.
David Ben-Gurion
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.
David Ben-Gurion
If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.
David Ben-Gurion
Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.
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