Top 12 Quotes by David Ben-Gurion

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.

There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

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.

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.