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A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.

— Moshe Dayan The Iron Wall (1999)

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

We are a small nation, but strong; peace-loving, yet ready to fight for our lives and our country.

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

There is no more Palestine. Finished . . .

During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion, of getting additional Jews and additional settlements in order to expand the borders here. Let no Jew say that the process has ended. Let no Jew say that we are near the end of the road.

The Iron Wall (1999)

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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