64 Quotes by Moshe Dayan

Anyone who has practical ideas or proposal to encourage emigration, let him speak up. No idea or proposal is to be dismissed out of hand.

Supreme efforts must be made to acquire more arms and ammunitions until the date of the clash, but one thing must not be made dependent on the other.

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.

Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.

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.

Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.

It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.

If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.

I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.