We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
GOLDA MEIRWe Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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