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
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice. – Moshe Dayan
There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population. – 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
It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying. – Moshe Dayan
Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood. – Moshe Dayan
We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today. – Moshe Dayan
I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal. – 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
If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week. – Moshe Dayan