Quotes by Moshe Dayan

“If you want to make peace, you dont talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”

“It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers and families but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not ...”

“I have the strength to endure it all.”

“Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.”

“If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”

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

“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.”

“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”

“It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will no...”

“We are a small nation, but strong; peace-loving, yet ready to fight for our lives and our country.”

“The Israeli army is called a defense force but it is not a defensive army. . . . The Sinai campaign (1956), the reprisal acts and the raids across the border were purely offensive operations, and w...”

“We came to this country which was already populated by Arabs, and we are establishing a Hebrew, that is a Jewish state here. In considerable areas of the country we bought lands from the Arabs. Jew...”

“There is no more Palestine. Finished . . .”

“Let's say we don't have a solution, and you will continue living like dogs, and whoever wants will go, and we'll see how this procedure will work out. For now, it works out. Let's say the truth. We...”

“In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.”

“Along the Syria border there were no farms and no refugee camps — there was only the Syrian army... The kibbutzim saw the good agricultural land … and they dreamed about it... They didn't even try ...”

“Let us not today cast blame on the murderers. Who are we to argue against their potent hatred for us? For eight years they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we h...”

“The only method that proved effective, not justified or moral but effective, when Arabs plant mines on our side [is retaliation]. If we try to search for the [particular] Arab [who planted mines], ...”

“Let us not today fling accusation at the murderers. What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their ey...”

“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. But it was in ...”