The character of a people may be ruined by charity. - Theodor Herzl

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The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis. -Theodor Herzl

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If you will it, it is no dream. - 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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It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit. - Theodor Herzl

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It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable .- Theodor Herzl

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

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Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable. -Theodor Herzl

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I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world. - Theodor Herzl

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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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