Golda Meir Quotes

Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

You know that Moses was spinning like crazy in Exodus XIV through XVII when the Jewish people wanted to go back and become a place again because tramping through the desert was a bit too hard.

Moses is our true founding father.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Let my people go!

If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.

Most of us have made the mistake that after they crossed the Red Sea they spent 40 years in the wilderness fighting amongst each other.

When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.

I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.

The Egyptian flood is upon us. Pharaoh had just as much business to pursue the Israelites as we have to meddle in Egypt …. However, our policy must now be determined by the effect which the triumph of the Madhi would have on our Mohammedan subjects.

The state of the land of Israel, the kings and people thereof, in peace and war, is proved figurative and ceremonial, and no pattern nor precedent for any kingdom or civil state in the world to follow.

Since the Exodus, Freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

The problem is that the good Lord didn’t see fit to put oil and gas reserves where there are democratic governments.

Should the people of the world say to Israel, “You are robbers, because you took by force the land of the 7 nations of Canaan” Israel may reply to them. “All the earth belongs to the Holy One, blessed be He; He created it and gave it to whom He pleased. When He willed He gave it to them, and when He willed He took it from them and gave it to us.

That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt.

The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!

If you look at a group of people that had faith, it's got to be the Jews. They followed Moses through the desert for 40 years with no map. There had to be one guy in the back, like, 'I don't think he knows where he's going.'

Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.