Ben-Gurion, David Filmography

• War of the Gods
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Knowledge is for Acting Upon: The Manhattan Raid
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Operation Thunderbolt: Entebbe
  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• In Our Own Hands
  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself - with Weizmann in London
• The Long Way Home
  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself - Sings Hatikvah, Declares Statehood
• Israel: Birth of a Nation
  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Ben Gurion Zoher
  1973, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Strike Zion!
  1967, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by David Ben-Gurion:

"We must expel the Arabs and take their places."

"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."

"Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism."

"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence"

"Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs."

"If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared"

"Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."

"In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles"

"If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert"

"If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert."

"Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times."

"There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million."

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."

"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence."

"Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport."

"The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America."

"Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message."

"Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist."

"In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Ben Gurion - Hot Snakes

Resurrect Ben Gurion
Sign his release
Give him the peace prize
Then give him to me
Make the desert bloom again
Like it did once before
Give me the blessings of New York City
And a blank check from the CEO
There's plenty of space out there
You could be anywhere
Let my people go!
It's all been settled now
It woulda happened anyhow
Let my people go!
Build the IDF a high-rise
On Cortlandt Street
And when they die
They'll leave it to me
We'll all have new lots
And planned community
And when we die