David Ben-Gurion quotes Born: 10/16/1886 Died: 12/01/1973 Country: israel

• Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. (David Ben-Gurion)
• In order to be realist you must believe in miracles. (David Ben-Gurion) [order]
• Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared. (David Ben-Gurion) [courage/knowledge/knowledge/fear]
• Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. (David Ben-Gurion)
• Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. (David Ben-Gurion)
• Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. (David Ben-Gurion)
• If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert. (David Ben-Gurion)
• In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. (David Ben-Gurion)
• Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. (David Ben-Gurion)
• Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. (David Ben-Gurion)
• Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message. (David Ben-Gurion)
• The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. (David Ben-Gurion)
• There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million. (David Ben-Gurion)
• Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. (David Ben-Gurion)

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