We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIRWe Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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’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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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