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"Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security."

"Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map."

"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."

"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."

"Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic."

"I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza."
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"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."

"Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."

"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."

"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."

"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence."

"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."

"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."
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