David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion, born David Grün; 16 October 1886, Płońsk, Poland – 1 December 1973, Tel Aviv, Israel) was the primary founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 October 1886
CityPlonsk, Poland
CountryIsrael
enemy survival survivor
After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.
country israel people
Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to gain from such a development. They want the country to be in a state of perpetual pogrom.... Any further bloodshed [by the Jews] will only bring political advantage to the Arabs and harm us... Our strength is in the defense... and this strength will give us political victory if England and the world will know that we are defending ourselves rather than attacking.
country simple destiny
This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his country. After all, there is room for only one Prime Minister, but for those who make the desert bloom there is room for hundreds, thousands and even millions. And the destiny of the state is in the hands of the many rather than of a single individual. There are times when an individual feels he should do those things which only can and should be done by the many.
firsts jew
Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.
forget young palestinian
The old will die and the young will forget.
what-matters goyim matter
What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.
children lying israel
If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.
land people creative
Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.
land should circumstances
Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.
running benefits deeds
Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.
return palestinian-refugees referring
Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.
change believe writing
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
giving-up acceptance people
The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.
believe
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.