"The test of democracy is freedom to criticize." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"No city in the world, not even Athens and Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"If a land has a soul, then Jerusalem is the soul of the Land of Israel." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. " ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. " ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"Lord Samuel once said: “The Jews are like all other peoples, but with a certain plus”; the Zionists, too, in respect of the Land of Israel are like all Jews, but also plus something." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"The state of Israel represents and speaks only on behalf of its own citizens, and in no way presumes to represent or speak in the name of the Jews who are citizens of any other country." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"1948, a year of uniqueness and blessing, which will shine always upon the life of every one of us, and its light will blaze in Jewish history for ever and ever." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"The ghetto outlook divided the universe into two: this world for the Gentile and the next world for the Jew." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"The worse deceit is self-deceit." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"Thought is a strenuous art — few practice it, and then only at rare times." ~~ David Ben-Gurion