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 MEIRTrust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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