Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don't personally believe in the God it postulates ... I am not religious, nor were the majority of the early builders of Israel believers. Yet their passion for this land stemmed from the Book of Books ... [The Bible is] the single most important book in my life.
David Ben-GurionIt is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.
David Ben-GurionThe great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
David Ben-GurionThe Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them -- to run away.
David Ben-Gurion