Quotes from Moshe Dayan

There is no more Palestine. Finished.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.

Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.

I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.

There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.

I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.

Most important, don't do anything you don't want.

I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.