I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
GOLDA MEIRFashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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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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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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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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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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