It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,

It's not enough to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow.

We do not wish and do not need to expel Arabs and take their places.

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.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.