We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
GOLDA MEIRPessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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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.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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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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