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" I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses. "

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" I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension. "

Yitzhak Shamir

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Home

" Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return. "

" Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever. "

" I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today. "

" Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses. "

" Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland. "

" I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace. "

" We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization. "

" Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states. "

" The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel. "

" In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever. "

" In its Declaration of Independence on May 15, 1948, Israel stretched out its hand in peace to its Arab neighbors, calling for an end to war and bloodshed. In response, seven Arab states invaded Israel. The U.N. resolution that partitioned the country was thus violated and effectively annulled. "

" There is a constant effort of the Palestinian terrorist organizations to increase their presence and their forces in Lebanon. "

" Lehi was not a part of the Zionist movement, not a part of the Revisionist Party. It was sometimes something apart, and Lord Moyne was the highest British official in the Middle East... and because we fought against the British in this area, we took him for a target. "

" The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land. "

" I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree. "

" When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state. "

" If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life. "

" There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations. "

" I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful. "

Yitzhak Shamir

Painful

Friend

" All of the land of Israel is ours. "

" Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust. "

" Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace. "

" A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history. "

" After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of the Zionist movement has to be a Jewish commonwealth... a Jewish commonwealth! "

" The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people. "

" The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim. "

" The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views. "

" The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple. "

" We must never bend too much. "