David Ben-Gurion

"The way of the truth is like a lightning bolt."

"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."

"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right order."

"We should teach people how to think, not what to think."

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

"You grow in life only when you challenge yourself."

"In the Diaspora, we were strangers everywhere. In Israel, we are at home."

"Pessimism is a luxury we cannot afford."

"We must do the impossible, because the possible has already been done by others."

"The Jewish people have been chosen not for privileges, but for responsibilities."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge in building a nation."

"A people that does not fight for its land does not deserve it."

"We are not here to build monuments, but to build a people."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind simultaneously."

"Every Jew is responsible for every other Jew."

"We wage war so that our children may know peace."

"Technology without vision is merely machinery; vision without technology is merely dreams."

"The greatest wisdom is knowing what you do not know."

"A state that does not grow is a state that dies."

"We must educate ourselves to love freedom more than comfort."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"In times of crisis, we discover who we truly are."

"History is not made by those who give up, but by those who persist."

"We inherit the past, but we create the future."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."

"A nation's strength lies not in its weapons, but in its people."

"We must learn from history, but not be imprisoned by it."

"The measure of our civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable."

"Patience is the art of hoping."

"We are builders of something greater than ourselves."