Words matter. These are the best Menachem Begin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, are apart. Then they have the armed groups. Everybody’s got a private army.
We of course will say we claim sovereignty of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district. Others will come, and they will say we claim sovereignty. What can be the outcome?
The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.
Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative.
You want me to become a leaker? I’m not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions.
You annex foreign land, not your own country.
In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.
There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.
We don’t need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.
The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together.
No one will frighten the large and free Jewish community of the United States.
He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.
After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland.
