Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

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.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

I have the strength to endure it all.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

Most important, don't do anything you don't want.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan

I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.