Courage is… 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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs. David Ben-Gurion Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
