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Quotes by Theodor Herzl

Born: 2nd May 1860, Died: 3rd July 1904
Theodor Herzl was an Austrian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism.
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If you will it, it is no dream. Read Summary

Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable. Read Summary

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one. Read Summary

The character of a people may be ruined by charity. Read Summary

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home. Read Summary

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned. Read Summary

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world. Read Summary

The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based. Read Summary

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together. Read Summary

I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose. Read Summary

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit. Read Summary

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation. Read Summary

We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny. Read Summary

Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us. Read Summary

What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal. Read Summary

Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. Consequently, the only reasonable Course of action is to work for publicly legalized guarantees. Read Summary

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place. Read Summary

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves. Read Summary

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. Read Summary

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable. Read Summary