The past is our very being.

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

The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to gain from such a development. They want the country to be in a state of perpetual pogrom.... Any further bloodshed [by the Jews] will only bring political advantage to the Arabs and harm us... Our strength is in the defense... and this strength will give us political victory if England and the world will know that we are defending ourselves rather than attacking.

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.