Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.
David Ben-GurionWhy 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.
David Ben-GurionThe Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them -- to run away.
David Ben-GurionWhen a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.
David Ben-GurionWe do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and rulers, and the blacks are the workers. If we do not do all kinds of work, easy and hard, skilled and unskilled, if we become merely landlords, then this will not be our homeland
David Ben-Gurion