It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

We are a small nation, but strong.

Most important, don't do anything you don't want.

Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.

I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.

I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

There is no more Palestine. Finished.

It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

I have the strength to endure it all.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

To aim and hit you need one eye only and one good finger.

Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.