"We came to this country which was a country without a people, and we settled it amongst a people without a country."

"We must be a nation that stands on its own feet."

"The State of Israel is the fulfillment of a two-thousand-year-old dream."

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

"The Bible is our mandate, the Bible which was written by us, in our own language, in Hebrew, in this very land."