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
israel want kind
We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and rulers, and the blacks are the workers. If we do not do all kinds of work, easy and hard, skilled and unskilled, if we become merely landlords, then this will not be our homeland
country views want
Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.
country bridges want
Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.
hate want hell
If the antisemites want to hate, let them hate, and let them go to hell.
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.
eleven increase jewish jews million quite several state ten
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.
courage fear feared knowledge ought special
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.
return palestinian-refugees referring
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.