Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.

An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.

Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.

Be free to do what you want to... before the time is through.

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Our honour is that we make the law to violate and break it, and we stay to do that.

If dreams were wine, you'd be a sot.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think its bipartisan.

The words are all gone, the time's been too long but it's not too late to say I'm sorry to a friend

I did every sport under the sun while growing up.

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.