1. “I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.”
2. “We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.”
3. “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.”
4. “Most important, don’t do anything you don’t want.”
5. “I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking in picking experts
6. “I know of nothing more exciting than war.”
7. “To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.”
8. “The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.”
9. “Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.”
10. “Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.”
11. “If we lose this war, I’ll just start another in my wife’s name.”
12. “If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. you talk to your enemies.”
13. “After all, we are not children. It’s time we planned our life.”
14. “It’s a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.”
15. I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table”.”
16. “I don’t think we should be a model family living in a model home.”
17. “I have the strength to endure it all.”
18. “We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.”
19. “I feel I’ve lived so long and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.”
20. “We are a small nation, but strong.”
