"No nation can be redeemed save by itself." ~~ Theodor Herzl
"No city in the world, not even Athens and Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"Our ancestors in the desert remembered the fine fish they used to eat in Egypt, but the hard labor they were made to do there they forgot." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"The inner history of a people is contained in its songs." ~~ Rabbi Adolph Jellinek
"I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." ~~ Woody Allen
"One kingdom comes and another goes, but Israel abices for ever." ~~ Baraitha
"History is the study of other people’s mistakes." ~~ Phillip Guedalla
"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
"The philosophy of a nation is to be found in its proverbs at times. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"Judaism is an historical religion." ~~ Moses Hess
"History, far from repeating itself, occasionally produces startling surprises." ~~ Reuven Alcalay
"To see in history a moral purpose and a task for a people on earth is a great discovery, far more important than the accounts of battles and intrigues that have plagued humanity from time immemorial." ~~ Jacob Singer