We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.
Menachem BeginRead
Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And forever.
Interpretation
The quote expresses an unwavering belief in the eternal connection between the Jewish people and their homeland, Israel.
Menachem Begin's quote emphasizes the deep-rooted historical and spiritual bond between the Jewish people and the land of Israel. It reflects a commitment to the notion that the land will be fully restored to its rightful inhabitants, symbolizing hope, resilience, and an enduring sense of belonging that transcends time.
In practice
Use this quote during a speech about the importance of cultural heritage.
We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.
No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.
I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.
My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were called by our people to care for their future. We went any place, we looked for any avenue, we made any effort to bring about negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, negotiations without which peace remains an abstract desire.
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.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it.
In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society.
The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols; so that it is wrong to say that a good language is important to good thought, merely; for it is the essence of it.
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