Moshe Dayan's Quotes

We are a small nation, but strong.

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

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.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

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.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

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.

I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

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 traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.

I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.

Most important, don't do anything you don't want.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.

I have the strength to endure it all.

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.