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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

  Roots, Giving, Wish

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.

  Theodor Herzl

  Men, Circles, Routine

  Theodor Herzl (1970). “The Jewish state: (Der Judenstaat).”

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• When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

  Theodor Herzl

  Party, Purses, Revolutionary

  Theodor Herzl (2006). “The Jewish State”, p.23, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

  Theodor Herzl

  Earth, Requirements, Granted

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• We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.

  Theodor Herzl

  Destiny

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.

  Theodor Herzl

  Dream, Men, Different

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

  Theodor Herzl

  Law, Land, Jew

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• Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

  Theodor Herzl

  Dream, Song, Tree

  Quoted in Carl E Schorske Fin-de-Sie'cle Vienna (1961), p.165.

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• 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

  Smile, Beautiful, Home

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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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.

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  Long, Entrepreneur, Mind Your Own Business

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• In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognized the emptiness and futility of trying to "combat" anti-Semitism.

  Theodor Herzl

  Attitude, Paris, Trying

  "The Diaries of Theodor Herzl". Book by Theodor Herzl, 1956.

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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

  People, Rehabilitation, Want

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels

  Theodor Herzl

  House, Secret, Machines

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• The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

  Theodor Herzl

  Character, People, Charity

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• 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

  Father, Home, Thinking

  Theodor Herzl, Ludwig Lewisohn (1955). “Theodor Herzl: a portrait for this age”

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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

  Home, Political, Pressure

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• 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

  People, Principles, Movement

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• The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.

  Theodor Herzl

  Grateful, Home, Son

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