Author: Yitzhak Shamir

Quotes

The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.

The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.

- Yitzhak Shamir

A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.

A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.

- Yitzhak Shamir

We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

- Yitzhak Shamir

I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.

I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.

- Yitzhak Shamir

I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.

I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.

- Yitzhak Shamir

If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.

If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.

- Yitzhak Shamir

When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.

When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.

- Yitzhak Shamir

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