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1. "If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home." ~ Theodor Herzl
2. "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
3. "Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together." ~ Theodor Herzl
4. "We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny." ~ Theodor Herzl
5. "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
6. "We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow." ~ Theodor Herzl
7. "I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose." ~ Theodor Herzl
8. "The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned." ~ Theodor Herzl
9. "Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us." ~ Theodor Herzl
10. "Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements." ~ Theodor Herzl
11. "The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based." ~ Theodor Herzl
12. "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
13. "But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home." ~ Theodor Herzl
14. "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
15. "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
16. "If you will it, it is no dream." ~ Theodor Herzl
17. "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
18. "Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable." ~ Theodor Herzl
19. "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
20. "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
21. "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
22. "Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed." ~ Theodor Herzl
23. "The character of a people may be ruined by charity." ~ Theodor Herzl

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