21 Quotes by Moshe Dayan
- 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.
- There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.
- 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.
- Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?
- To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
- The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.
- We are a small nation, but strong.
- Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.
- Most important, don't do anything you don't want.
- Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
- Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.
- I have the strength to endure it all.
- It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.
- Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.
- If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
- I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.
- I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.
- I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
- I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.
- Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
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