The law is whatever people determine it to be.

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

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

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

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

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

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.