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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

Moshe Dayan

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Moshe Dayan
Age: 66 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 20
Died: 1981
Died: October 16
Archaeologist
Defense Minister Of Israel
Military Officer
Politician
Deganya Alef
Moshe Daian
Freedom
Soul
July
Oxygen
Positivity
Patriotic
Patriotism
Independence
Liberty

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I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.
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I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.
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Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.
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I know of nothing more exciting than war.
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I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
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If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.
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We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves... Let us make our reckoning today.
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Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.
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In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.
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I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.
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It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.
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Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.
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It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not be willing to pay it.
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If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
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A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.
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Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of colonizers and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a house.
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Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist.
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Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.
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Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
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We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.
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