"Our task today is harder than Moses’; he had only to deliver Israel from one Egypt, we must deliver it from many." ~~ Manachem Ussishkin
"God appeared unto Abram and said: “Unto thy seed will I give this land.” " ~~ Genesis (Bereshit) 12:7
"Israel is like a vine: trodden underfoot; but some time later its wine is placed on the table of a king. So Israel, at first oppressed, will eventually come to greatness." ~~ Talmud, Nedarim 49b
"Three things have charm: a place to its residents, a woman to her husband, a bargain to its customer, and some say, also, the Torah to its students." ~~ Talmud, Sota
"What nation on earth has customs as strange as ours? Our poor demand alms, as if they were collecting a debt, and our benefactors…invite paupers to their table." ~~ Jacob Mendele
"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
"As earnestly as David prayed that he should not fall into Saul’s hands, so prayed he that Saul fall not into his." ~~ Yalkut Shim’oni
"There are times when an individual feels he should do those things which only can and should be done by the many. There is room for only one Prime Minister, but for those who make the desert bloom there is room for hundreds, thousands and even millions. " ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"Every Jew – wherever he or she may find themselves, even a solitary Jew in the most remote corner of the earth – must remember that they are part of the whole Jewish people and representatives of the entire Jewish people – the one people ever since the Torah was given at Mt. Sinai, until the end of time. " ~~ Rebbe Menachem Schneerson
"Without moral and intellectual independence, there can be no national independence." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"So great is peace that, even if Israel worship idols yet peace reigns among them, God says: I cannot, as it were, wield power over them, because peace prevails there. " ~~ Genesis (Bereshit) R.
"Israel’s mission is…to realize its ideals on its own soil and in its own State." ~~ Eliezer Livneh
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