This exit of the settlers is one of the fruits of your sacrifices. This step is only the first step that will be completed in the West Bank and in Jerusalem. But the step has come as a result of patience and sacrifices of our people, of martyrs, of wounded, of houses destroyed. All of those have brought us the fruit we are celebrating today.
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.
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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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Today we are getting part of the payoff, of your sacrifice, by seeing the last settlers leaving Gaza, ... The credit for the evacuation is for you and for the martyrs who sacrificed themselves and gave their lives for the homeland.
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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced
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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
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Sleep sweetly in your humble graves, Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;...
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.
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Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
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