Menachem Begin Quotes
We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.
Begin, Menachem. Address to the World Zionist Congress. 20 Feb. 1978, Jerusalem. Published in Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel's Soul by Daniel Gordis, Schocken Books, 2014.
Although a heroine of modern conservatives, Rand was hostile to religion. Where most conservatives would refer to “God-given rights”, Ayn Rand, argued that a human’s very existance was the warrant and sanction of his rights.
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Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the creation of the state of Israel, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944, against the British mandatory government, which was opposed by the Jewish Agency. As head of the Irgun, he targeted the British in Palestine. Later, the Irgun fought the Arabs during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and its chief Begin was also noted as "leader of the notorious terrorist organisation" by British government and banned from entering the United Kingdom.
