The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer. The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values. We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative.
Men ought to be proud of it.
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.