David Ben-Gurion Quotes

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
David Ben-Gurion

Anyone, Miracles, Realist

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.
David Ben-Gurion

Done, Another, Says

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.
David Ben-Gurion

Courage, Fear, Knowledge

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
David Ben-Gurion

Art, Thought, Few

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
David Ben-Gurion

Order, Miracles, Israel

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
David Ben-Gurion

Change, History, Write

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

Courage, Fear, Knowledge

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

Faith, Country, America

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

Time, Give, Suffering

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

Fight, Working, Image

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

Great, America, Others

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

Here, State, Expect

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
David Ben-Gurion

Moral, National, Anchor

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Statesman

Born: October 16, 1896

Died: December 1, 1973

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