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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.

Golda Meir

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.
GOLDA MEIR

Affection Honesty Myself Possible Question Success
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
GOLDA MEIR

Compromise Question Yourself
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
GOLDA MEIR

Government Ideal Reality World
This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Fulfill God Legal Promise
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
GOLDA MEIR

Accomplishment Alone Collection Myself
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Elimination Enemy Hate Love War
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Joke Sin Time
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Expression Hope Myself People See Sympathy
I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR

Afraid Heart Myself People Sorry
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Man Minister Myself Woman
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Family Lost Place Return
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
GOLDA MEIR

Better Job Man Success Woman
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Fate Friendship Natural Ourselves People World
We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
GOLDA MEIR

Deep Peace Side War Win
From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
GOLDA MEIR

Fear Happiness Memories Myself Terror Tragedy Yourself
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
GOLDA MEIR

Achievement Creation Flame Happiness Kind Life Possible Trust Yourself

From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.

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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.

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