You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

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Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation. - Theodor Herzl

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The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned. - Theodor Herzl

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Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. -Theodor Herzl

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Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it. - Theodor Herzl

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What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal. - Theodor Herzl

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But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain. - Theodor Herzl

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If you will it, it is no dream. - Theodor Herzl

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Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place. -Theodor Herzl

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Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one. -Theodor Herzl

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