Quotes by David Ben-Gurion

“In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles”

“Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”

“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared”

“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”

“Anyone who believes you cant change history has never tried to write his memoirs.”

“Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence”

“Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.”

“We must expel the Arabs and take their places.”

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.

In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

In Israel in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

The past is our very being.

Anyone who doesnt believe in miracles is not a realist.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

Anyone who believes you cant change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.