A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
GOLDA MEIRThose who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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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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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.
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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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