The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIRHow can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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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.
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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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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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.
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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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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 do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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