Under No Circumstances Must We Touch Land

The Past Is Our Very Being.

If I Knew That It Was Possible To Save All The Children Of Germany By Transporting Them To England, And Only Half By Transferring Them To The Land Of Israel, I Would Choose The Latter, For Before Us Lies Not Only The Numbers Of These Children But The Historical Reckoning Of The People Of Israel.

We Do Not Want To Create A Situation Like That Which Exists In South Africa, Where The Whites Are The Owners And Rulers, And The Blacks Are The Workers. If We Do Not Do All Kinds Of Work, Easy And Hard, Skilled And Unskilled, If We Become Merely Landlords, Then This Will Not Be Our Homeland

It Is In The Negev That The Creativity And Pioneer Vigor Of Israel Shall Be Tested.

We Have Preserved The Book, And The Book Has Preserved Us.