Theodor Herzl on Zionism
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“If you will it, it is no dream”
“Zionism is the return of the Jews to Judaism, before their return to the Jewish land.”
“The world will be freer by our liberty, richer by our wealth, greater by our greatness.”
“The Jews have but one way of saving themselves — a return to their own people and an emigration to their own land.”
“Let everyone find out what Zionism really is, Zionism, which was rumored to be a sort of millennial marvel—that it is a moral, lawful, humanitarian movement, directed toward the long-yearned-for goal of our people.”
“Were I to sum up the Basel Congress in a word — which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly — it would be this: At Basel, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. Perhaps in five years, certainly in fifty, everyone will know it.”