“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear w...” — David Ben-Gurion Quote

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.

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

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.

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

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

We've all got to discover the courage to ask the difficult questions about the future of our party and the future of the working-class communities who need a Labour government.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.