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

— Moshe Dayan

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

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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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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