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Quotes by David Ben-Gurion

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
– David Ben-Gurion
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.
– David Ben-Gurion
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.
– David Ben-Gurion
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
– David Ben-Gurion
If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.
– David Ben-Gurion
Our policy must be the unity of the human race. The world is divided into two blocs. We consider that the United Nations is a Jewish ideal.
– David Ben-Gurion
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.
– David Ben-Gurion
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
– David Ben-Gurion
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.
– David Ben-Gurion
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
– David Ben-Gurion
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.
– David Ben-Gurion