Theodor Herzl Quotes

• Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons… Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

  Theodor Herzl

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• Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first…

  Theodor Herzl

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  Tags in Optimism

• Anti -Semitism continues to grow-and so do I.

  Theodor Herzl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Israel

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

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  Tags in People, Demand

• 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.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Make

• We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Believe

• We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.

  Theodor Herzl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Destiny

• 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.

  Theodor Herzl

  Topics in Experience

• 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.

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  Tags in Live, Organize

• 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.

  Theodor Herzl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Spirit

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

  Theodor Herzl

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Naturally

• The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

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  Tags in Jews

• The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.

  Theodor Herzl

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  Tags in People, Jewish

• The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

  Theodor Herzl

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  Tags in Character

• Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

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  Topics in Failure

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

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  Tags in People, Palestine

• Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.

  Theodor Herzl

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  Tags in Opponents

• Our first object is… the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

  Theodor Herzl

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  Tags in Requirement

• 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.

  Theodor Herzl

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Prevents

• 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.

  Theodor Herzl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nation, Portions

Theodor Herzl (30)

Birth:	5th February, 1860
Death:	7th March, 1904
Nationality:	Austrian, Hungarian
Profession:	Journalist, Politician, Writer, Playwriter

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