Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
GOLDA MEIRThere was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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I’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.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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