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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.

Golda Meir

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
GOLDA MEIR

Civilization Compromise Necessary Negotiation Value
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
GOLDA MEIR

Bloom Growth Happiness Kind Victory
There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Existence Reality
It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
GOLDA MEIR

Cry Discover Easy Myself People Thinking
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’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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Decision Difference Kill Oneself Worst
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Negotiation Peace Road War
Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Foolishness Liberty Oneself Woman
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Allow Himself Jew Luxury Pessimism
Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
GOLDA MEIR

Greatness Humble Yourself
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
GOLDA MEIR

Finish Home Struggle Thinking Work Yourself
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?
GOLDA MEIR

Country Myself Right Way
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
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Day Study Weird Yourself
We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
GOLDA MEIR

Act God Military Thankful Thrive
You can’t improve on saying nothing.
GOLDA MEIR

Improvement Talk Voice Yourself

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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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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