After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. But it was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying... It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.