"Draw from the past, live in the present, work for the future!" ~~ Abraham Geiger
"If you see a generation drowning in a sea of troubles, go forth and consider what the judges of Israel do!" ~~ Talmud, Shabbat
"We have guarded the Book for thousands of years and it has guarded us." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"All ancient people praised the Golden Era of the past. Only the Jews tell wonders of the golden Era still to come." ~~ Joseph Klausner
"Of all the evils of our generation, I do not know one that obstructs the moral development of mankind more than the Press." ~~ David Frishman
"I have pitched my tent on these ancient hills and my desire is to tie together the ends of the thread that history broke." ~~ Reubin Rubin
"The philosophy of a nation is to be found in its proverbs at times. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"History has no time to be just…She keeps her eyes fixed on the victorious, and leaves the vanquished in the shadows." ~~ Stefan Zweig
"The Jews are God’s stake in human history." ~~ A. J. Heschel
"The historian’s special interest in the Jewish nation is due to its being the only one that is met with at evey turn of history." ~~ James Darmsteter
"Judaism is an historical religion." ~~ Moses Hess
"Many pens are broken, and seas of ink consumed, to descibe things that never happened." ~~ Midrash Tanchuma