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The preface frames his approach as action-driven: “words without deeds” are meaningless, and example must lead the way. It highlights the vitality and logical rigor of the thoughts collected in the volume, emphasizing enduring principles and universal insights rooted in the Jewish mission and the message of Isaiah. The introduction situates Ben-Gurion’s many roles across eight decades, from immigrant pioneer to statesman and military founder.","Memoirs  \nDavidVBen-Gurion  \n# MEMOIRS\n\nCOMPILED BY THOMAS R.BRANSTEN  \nFirst published in the United States of Americaby TheWorld Publishing Company223I West IIoth Street,Cleveland,Ohio 44I02  \nFirst printing 1970  \nCopyright ◎I970 by  \nCovenant Communications Corporation,Geneva,SwitzerlandAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be  \nreproduced in any form without written permission fromthe publisher,except for brief passages includedin a review appearing in a newspaper or magazine.  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number:72-I23707  \nWORLD PUBLISHING  \nTIMES MIRROR  \nPRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN  \nCONTENTS  \nPreface 7Introduction 9  \nI The Jews I32 Early Years 3I3 Pioneering 45  \n4 Humanists and Fighters 635 Independence 77  \n6 Democracy and the Military Today 937 ‘The Bible is our Mandate'I078 To the Negev I339 Peace ISI  \nIO Amsagolah I73Chronology I83Bibliography 2I5Acknowledgements 2I7  \n# PREFACE\n\n'Words without deeds,'saysDavid Ben-Gurion,'arenothing.'Andhe adds:'One must show the way by example.'  \nIf anyone has set an example in the conduct of his life,Ben-Gurion is certainly that person.He has lived his thoughts inhis day-to-day actions and he has devoted his entire existenceto a single end:the redemption of the Jewish people in theirancienthome ofIsrael.  \nNow that he can look back over sixty years in this countryand to a life of Jewish activism that encompasses eightdecades -four-fifths of a century!-the thoughts of Ben-Gurion must claim the attention ofall who have shared in theJewish experience.But though he takes theJews as his subjectin this book,he carries his wisdom to a plane of universality.Ben-Gurion likes to invoke the Prophet Isaiah who enjoinedthe Jews to be‘a light unto the nations'.Here,he himself haskept faith with this injunction.Any human being who hasreflected on the meaning ofhis days andonhuman existence ingeneral will find in this volume food for thought and forinspiration.  \nWhat strikes me about these meditations are their youthful-ness,the flexib.ity of Ben-Gurion's approach to the problemshe cxamines,ti:e rigour of his logic and,not least,his sharpsense of humour.This is not an old man's'book hearkingwith nostalgia for things past.When Ben-Gurion recallsformer days he does so to illuminate present and future.  \nThe words set down here are those ofa fighter who is also a  \n8 David Ben-Gurion  \nlogician,a wit and a philosopher.His long existence,far fromdulling the edge of a sharp perception,has endowed it with amellowness,a breadth of vision and a profundity that no onewho has lived less fully or less wisely could hope to attain.  \nBen-Gurion writes of Moses whom he calls by his Hebrewname of Moshe.He says that Moshe gave theJews a definitionof their mission,a reason for their presence as a people.Andhe adds that today,3,300 years later,this definition is asmeaningful as when first formulated.In other words,allthings in life change yet certain ideas and principles by thetruth they embody abide for alltime.  \nI think that what Ben-Gurion offers us in this study alsocontains elements ofenduring truth.It is not a difficult workto read or to understand.But it does reflect the sagacity of alife lived in dedication to an ideal by a man who is an activistin the strongest sense of the term and equally a thinker ofpenetration.I take great honour and pleasure in commendingthis volume both to aJewish and a general public not only forthe occasion of a single reading but as one of those enduringbooks to keep,to treasure,to study periodically throughoutone's days,to hand on to one's children.And most of all,tolearn from by a man whoselife and whose wordsform a wholethat is truly exemplary.  \nABRAHAM F.RADHonorary ChairmanIsrael Communications Center,Jerusalem  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nHILD of the Polish ghetto,immigrant to Palestine,farm 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