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 MEIRZionism and pessimism are not compatible.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t 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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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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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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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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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