Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
GOLDA MEIRWe will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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.
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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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