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"We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face."
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"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
May,

"To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world."

"If Senator Kerry decides to join us for an hour, then we may only use one or two brief clips. And use the bulk of what he has to tell us as part of that program."
May,

"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."

"May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin."

"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."
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"By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime."

"I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered."

"When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs."

"Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine."

"Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time."

"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population."

"I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant."

"An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?."

"As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets."
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