The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

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.

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

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.