Gamal Abdel Nasser Quotes
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
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What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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If the Jews win this battle, then the Arabs had better go bury their faces in the mud!
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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If the refugees return to Israel – Israel will cease to exist.
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There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
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The holy march on which the Arab nation insists, will carry us forward from one victory to another ... the flag of freedom which flies over Baghdad today will fly over Amman and Riyadh. Yes, the flag of freedom which flies over Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad today will fly over the rest of the Middle East
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I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.
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We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.
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People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.
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I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa.
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No person, not even the most simple one, takes seriously the lie of the six million Jews that were murdered in the Holocaust.
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Let them kill Nasser! What is Nasser but one among many? I am alive, and even if I die, all of you are Gamal Abdul Nasser!
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We are awaiting aggression by Israel and any supporters of Israel. We will make it a decisive battle and get rid of Israel once and for all… This is the dream of every Arab.
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We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
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We knew that by closing the Gulf of Aqaba it might mean war with Israel. If war comes it will be total and the objective will be to destroy Israel.
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He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.
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If anyone thinks we have become tired, let me say that we are a struggling nation, a fighting nation, a patient nation.
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Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood… In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established