"There is one thing a man cannot change—his parents." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"Tradition must be a spring-board into the future, not an arm-chair for repose." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"There is no cure for those who know the truth but mean to reject it." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"There are times when an individual feels he should do those things which only can and should be done by the many. There is room for only one Prime Minister, but for those who make the desert bloom there is room for hundreds, thousands and even millions. " ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"Without moral and intellectual independence, there can be no national independence." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"Land is the source of life and creation, of culture and true independence." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it — all the associations which a different word has." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"The test of democracy is freedom to criticize." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"No city in the world, not even Athens and Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"If a land has a soul, then Jerusalem is the soul of the Land of Israel." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. " ~~ David Ben-Gurion