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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.

Golda Meir

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

Country Desert Need Place Water Weapon
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
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR

Happiness Heart Laughter Sadness
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
GOLDA MEIR

Deep Pay True Victory War Win
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Beautiful Blessing Development Myself Resource True
If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Happiness Leadership Place Politics Thinking
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
GOLDA MEIR

Adversity Better Company Partner Yourself
It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR

Accident Cry Feeling Laughter Public
The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
GOLDA MEIR

Hate Jew Ourselves Pity World
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Man Perfection Reach Secret Wait
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Country Hate Love Peace
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Difference Explanation Jew Man Myself Place Young
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
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

Myself Person See Sensibility
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
GOLDA MEIR

Ability Fall Mark Short
Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Defend Jew Stand

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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