I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
GOLDA MEIRThis country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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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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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.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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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.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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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