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Moshe Dayan [1915-1981] Israeli
Rank: 103
Soldier, Former Defense Minister of Israel


Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader and politician. He was the second child born on the first kibbutz, but he moved with his family in 1921, and he grew up on a moshav. 

Peace, Strength, Freedom, Money, Power



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We are a small nation, but strong.
101
The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
102
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. Power
103
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. Freedom
104
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice. Money
105
If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
106
I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table. Peace
107
I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.
108
I have the strength to endure it all. Strength
109
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. Peace
110
We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.
111
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.
112
There is no more Palestine. Finished.
113
The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.
114
Most important, don't do anything you don't want.
115
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.
116
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.
117
I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.
118
I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
119
I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.
120
To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
121
After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.
122
Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?
123
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.
124
The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.
125
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.
126
It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.
201
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. Strength
202
It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.
203
Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.
204
There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.
205

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