The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.
David Ben-GurionIt's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.
David Ben-GurionWe don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.
David Ben-GurionWe must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,
David Ben-GurionEverybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.
David Ben-Gurion