We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.

To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

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.

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

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.

After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.