The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.
David Ben-GurionRead
We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the common good of all.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of peace, cooperation, and communal benefit among nations.
David Ben-Gurion's quote advocates for a peaceful coexistence and collaborative efforts with neighboring nations for mutual benefit. It reflects a commitment to diplomacy and unity among diverse peoples, proposing that the independent Hebrew nation seeks to contribute positively to regional relationships and the welfare of all involved.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about international relations.
The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to gain from such a development. They want the country to be in a state of perpetual pogrom.... Any further bloodshed [by the Jews] will only bring political advantage to the Arabs and harm us... Our strength is in the defense... and this strength will give us political victory if England and the world will know that we are defending ourselves rather than attacking.
After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.
We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and rulers, and the blacks are the workers. If we do not do all kinds of work, easy and hard, skilled and unskilled, if we become merely landlords, then this will not be our homeland
Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.
There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.
True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
We believe what we see.β...What do you do when youβre in the dark?
According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.
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