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.

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.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.