"History has no time to be just…She keeps her eyes fixed on the victorious, and leaves the vanquished in the shadows." ~~ Stefan Zweig
"Just as the nation creates its own history, so, too, is it created by it." ~~ Simon M. Dubnov
"We have guarded the Book for thousands of years and it has guarded us." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"If you see a generation drowning in a sea of troubles, go forth and consider what the judges of Israel do!" ~~ Talmud, Shabbat
"Many pens are broken, and seas of ink consumed, to descibe things that never happened." ~~ Midrash Tanchuma
"The legends of a nation reveal its character to us more clearly than its acts and accidents." ~~ Jacob Klatzkin
"Preservation of the special character of nations is essential for progress." ~~ Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky
"A people’s memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better." ~~ Isaac Peretz
"The Jews are God’s stake in human history." ~~ A. J. Heschel
"When you whitewash your home, leave a small patch bare to remind you of the Temple’s destruction! [Tisha B”Av] " ~~ Talmud, Bava Batra
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. " ~~ Golda Meir
"Draw from the past, live in the present, work for the future!" ~~ Abraham Geiger
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