Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

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

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

We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.

If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.

Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don't personally believe in the God it postulates ... I am not religious, nor were the majority of the early builders of Israel believers. Yet their passion for this land stemmed from the Book of Books ... [The Bible is] the single most important book in my life.

The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.