David Ben-Gurion

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. ”

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. ”

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ”

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. ”

There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million. ”

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. ”

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ”

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message. ”

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. ”