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

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

To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

The Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them -- to run away.

We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.

Let me first tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the world says about Israel; it doesn't matter what they say about us anywhere else. The only thing that matters is that we can exist here on the land of our forefathers. And unless we show the Arabs that there is a high price to pay for murdering Jews, we won't survive.

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.