Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported i….

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative..

Better to be disliked than pitied..

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what t….

His ignorance is encyclopedic..

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 a….

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort..

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity..

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world..

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement..

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender..

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be..

Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. ….

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually..

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific ….

Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives.

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal..

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say..

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals..

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been..

Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss..