I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
GOLDA MEIRI never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
GOLDA MEIRIsrael itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
GOLDA MEIRThe public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIRDon’t be humble… you’re not that great.
GOLDA MEIRTrust 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 MEIRAnybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
GOLDA MEIRWe Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
GOLDA MEIRThe only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
GOLDA MEIRA leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
GOLDA MEIRThere is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
GOLDA MEIRYou can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
GOLDA MEIRI’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
GOLDA MEIREvery civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
GOLDA MEIRArab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
GOLDA MEIROne cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
GOLDA MEIRI 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 MEIR