If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.
Yitzhak ShamirI believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
Yitzhak ShamirNeither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.
Yitzhak Shamir