Yitzhak Rabin Quotes

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

… without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.... Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

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.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witnesses to human folly.

Israel has a right to defend itself.

War can protect; it cannot create.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

Unlike Hezbollah, Israel's more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.

We make war that we may live in peace.

With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.