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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Golda Meir

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
GOLDA MEIR

Alive Bad Choice Death Image
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 MEIR

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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Joke Sin Time
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
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.
GOLDA MEIR

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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIR

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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
GOLDA MEIR

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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
GOLDA MEIR

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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
GOLDA MEIR

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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
GOLDA MEIR

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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIR

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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.
GOLDA MEIR

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We don’t want wars even when we win.
GOLDA MEIR

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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
GOLDA MEIR

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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIR

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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.
GOLDA MEIR

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