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.

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.

If the antisemites want to hate, let them hate, and let them go to hell.

The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.

Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.

If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.

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.