Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
History is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
We [Israel] have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
To wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defence, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed.
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.
Moses dragged us [Jews] for 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
