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.
GOLDA MEIRI’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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