"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
"Blood and fire and pillars of smoke—Joel (Yoel) 3:3—this is the whole history of the Jews; the rest is commentary; study it." ~~ Isaac Kaminer
"The Lord will bless His people with peace." ~~ Psalms (Tehillim) 29:11
"It is a people that shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. " ~~ Numbers (Bamidbar) 23:9
"The future of a nation is in its past." ~~ Yochanan Tversky
"All Jews are responsible each for the other." ~~ Talmud, Shavuot
"Again will I build you…He that scattered Israel will gather and guard him as a shepherd his flock." ~~ Jeremiah (Yirmeyahu) 31:3,9
"Judaism is a nation and a creed at one and the same time." ~~ Joseph Klausner
"We must work and struggle to redeem our land, and fight with the courage of those for whom there is no possible retreat." ~~ Joseph Vitkin
"The Jewish people is old in one way yet a babe in another." ~~ David Frishman
"No Jew, however learned and pious, may consider himself one whit better than a fellow Jew, however ignorant or irreligious." ~~ Simcha Bunim
"The history of the Jewish people is like an axis crossing the history of mankind from one of its poles to the other." ~~ Simon Dubnow