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.
More Quotes by David Ben-Gurion
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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 not to be feared.