David Ben-Gurion

"A partial Jewish State is not the end, but only the beginning. … I am certain that we well not be prevented from settling in the other parts of the country, either by mutual agreements with our Arab n…"

"The most dangerous enemy to Israel’s security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security."

"Yet for many of us, anti-Semitic feeling had little to do with our dedication . I personally never suffered anti-Semitic persecution. Plonsk was remarkably free of it, or at least the Jews felt well p…"

"We accepted the UN resolution, but the Arabs did not. They are preparing to make war on us. If we defeat them and capture western Galilee or territory on both sides of the road to Jerusalem, these are…"

"We shall be a free and self-sufficing nation, honouring Arab rights in an accord of equality, and living in peace with neighbour countries."

"I was in Dachau and Belsen. I saw chambers where hundreds of Jews were put to death every day... It is beyond mortal power to bring back to life six million who were burned, asphyxiated and buried ali…"

"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 th…"

"I have just come back from the internment camps of Europe where I looked on the survivors of the Nazi charnel houses. I was in Dachau and Belsen. I saw chambers where hundreds of Jews were throttled e…"