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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.


Theodore Bikel

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AVRAHAM BURG It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.
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OWEN ARTHUR I would like to be more active outside of Israel.
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TONY JUDT I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend its...
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YITZHAK RABIN It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
MOLIERE There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
JOHANN VON GOETHE There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all priz...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born...
THEODORE PARKER Ninety percent of everything is crap.
THEODORE STURGEON Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and merc...
THEODORE WHITE Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an A...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of lif...
THEODORE ROZAK The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Remorse is the pain of sin.
THEODORE PARKER Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
THEODORE PARKER The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of he...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we wer...
THEODORE PARKER My hat is in the ring.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they k...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virt...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT