David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion, born David Grün; 16 October 1886, Płońsk, Poland – 1 December 1973, Tel Aviv, Israel) was the primary founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 October 1886
CityPlonsk, Poland
CountryIsrael
mean men creative
We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.
mean israel america
When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.
country mean agreement
A partial Jewish State is not the end, but only the beginning. ... I am certain that we well not be prevented from settling in the other parts of the country, either by mutual agreements with our Arab neighbors or by some other means. . . [If the Arabs refuse] we shall have to speak to them in another language. But we shall only have another language if we have a state.
hate cutting israel
We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.
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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.
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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.
believe
In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
believe
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
land people creative
Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.
enemy survival survivor
After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.
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Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.
change believe writing
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
giving-up acceptance people
The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.
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Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.