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.

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.

We have preserved the Book, and the Book has preserved us.

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

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

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

The past is our very being.