Quotes from Ariel Sharon

I have worries, but in difficult times, that is when I am quiet.

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.

Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.

The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as a nation.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

Jerusalem is the holiest place for the Jewish people.

Every Jew has the right to ascend onto the Temple Mount.

I believe that the Jewish state will exist forever.

It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.