Israeli - Statesman | August 2, 1923 - September 28, 2016
As president, I was more successful; I had more opportunity than as prime minister. Why? I didn't have the power to give orders, to command, but I had the opportunity to call people to volunteer. In my period of presidency, I never heard the word 'no.'
Shimon Peres
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There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.
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I dreamed of a future as a muscular, tanned, kibbutznik, who plowed the fertile fields of the Jezreel Valley in the day, sang religiously in the dining hall in the evening, and fiercely guarded the farmland at night, riding a noble horse.
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My goal in life was to serve my people, and the most important service for the Jewish people is building the land, and the basics of building the people and the country is working the land.
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You can kill a body, but you cannot kill the great and noble idea of peace.
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From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination. A man may feel as old as his years yet as young as his dreams.
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My family's dream, and my own, was to live in Israel, and our eventual voyage to the port of Jaffa was like making a dream come true. Had it not been for this dream and this voyage, I would probably have perished in the flames, as did so many of my people, among them most of my own family.
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We proved that the aggressors do not necessarily emerge as the victors, but we learned that the victors do not necessarily win peace.
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It is not rifles but people who triumph, and the conclusion from all the wars is that we need better people, not better rifles - to win wars, and mainly to avoid them.
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I never was after money. It never attracted me.
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Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.
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I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?
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