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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.

Golda Meir

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
GOLDA MEIR

Action Impossible President Thinking
Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Happiness Joy Sin Time
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Man Minister Myself Woman
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 MEIR

Country Fulfill God Legal Promise
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
GOLDA MEIR

Fate Friendship Natural Ourselves People World
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
GOLDA MEIR

Allow Himself Jew Luxury Pessimism
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
GOLDA MEIR

Creation Happiness Kind Life Trust Yourself
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
GOLDA MEIR

Battle Hesitation Himself Leadership Nation
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Forgiveness Kill Ourselves War Yourself
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Average Blame Doubt Himself Logic Man Praise
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Old Plane Storm Yourself
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
GOLDA MEIR

Achievement Creation Flame Happiness Kind Life Possible Trust Yourself
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Day Study Weird Yourself
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Promise Strong
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Fear Happiness Memories Myself Terror Tragedy Yourself
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIR

Conventional Deal History People Public Story

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