Top 65 Menachem Quotes
#1. Menachem's problem was this: he had more money than there were things to buy. Menachem's solution was this: rather than buy more things, he would continue to buy the things he already owned,
Jonathan Safran Foer
#2. Every end justifies the means? - No! The end justifies all the means? - No! Every end justifies all the means? - No, never!" - Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
Preston Fleming
#3. The people of Israel have lived 3,700 years without a memorandum of understanding with America and will continue to live without it another 3,700 years.
Menachem Begin
#6. There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.
Menachem Begin
#7. One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.
Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk
#8. Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative.
Menachem Begin
#9. The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized ... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.
Menachem Begin
#11. The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%.
Menachem Begin
#12. Poles did not like Jews and they were worse than Germans.
Menachem Begin
#13. Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.
Menachem Begin
#14. Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
#15. When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
#16. People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves, to see what happens there.
Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk
#17. When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
#18. No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.
Menachem Begin
#19. Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
#21. You want me to become a leaker? I'm not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions.
Menachem Begin
#22. The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him
Menachem Begin
#23. Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, are apart. Then they have the armed groups. Everybody's got a private army.
Menachem Begin
#24. The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.
Menachem Begin
#25. UNIFIL was a complete disappointment. But a kind of multinational force.
Menachem Begin
#26. In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.
Menachem Begin
#27. If you are you because you are you, and I am I because I am I, then you are you and I am I.
If you are you because I am I, and I am I because you are you, then you and I are not.
Menachem Mendel
#30. We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.
Menachem Begin
#31. Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do!
Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk
#33. We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.
Menachem Begin
#34. The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together.
Menachem Begin
#35. No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.
Menachem Begin
#36. Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
#37. So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
#38. We attacked selected military targets of the P.L.O. Around, civilians were hurt, I don't want to deny it. Very regrettable, very regrettable. We regret it deeply.
Menachem Begin
#41. There are those who say we must rescind the Golan Heights law that was passed in the Knesset. To rescind is a concept from the days of the Inquisition. Our forefathers were burned at the stake and would not rescind their faith.
Menachem Begin
#42. Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.
Menachem Begin
#45. Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
#46. Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.
Menachem Begin
#49. After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland.
Menachem Begin
#50. We do not covet one inch of Lebanese territory, and the basis for the peace treaty between our two countries will be the international border, which exists now, between Rosh Haniqra and Ras en Naqura.
Menachem Begin
#51. Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
#52. I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.
Menachem Begin
#53. The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.
Menachem Begin
#55. No one will frighten the large and free Jewish community of the United States.
Menachem Begin
#56. Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
#57. We of course will say we claim sovereignty of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district. Others will come, and they will say we claim sovereignty. What can be the outcome?
Menachem Begin
#58. The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.
Menachem Begin
#61. He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.
Menachem Begin
#62. In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my palate if I cease to think of you, if I do not keep the extermination of the Jews in memory even at my happiest hour.
Menachem Begin
#64. There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate.
Menachem Begin
#65. And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
