75 Quotes by David Ben-Gurion

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.

You must talk to us as equals, or not talk to us at all.

The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.

In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institutions - provisional or permanent.

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

We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and rulers, and the blacks are the workers. If we do not do all kinds of work, easy and hard, skilled and unskilled, if we become merely landlords, then this will not be our homeland

To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder.

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. . . .