We have preserved the Book, and the Book has preserved us.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

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

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

No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs.

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.