Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
GOLDA MEIRArab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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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.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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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.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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