A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.