We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the common good of all.

To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

In the land of Israel was born the Jewish nation. There came an order to kill the religious and social spirit of the people. . . . And after the nation turned back to its land with strength, it protected it steadfastly. . . .

We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel.

It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.