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

— Moshe Dayan

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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.

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.

The Iron Wall (1999)

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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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Erasmus Adagia (1508)

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Woodrow Wilson

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

George Washington

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