The less their ability, the more their conceit.

More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR. The Arab, like all sons of Sham, has sharp and crafty mind . . . Should time come when life of our people in Palestine imposes to a smaller or greater extent on the natives, they WILL NOT easily step aside.

The right place for the League of Nations is not Geneva or the Hague, Ascher Ginsberg has dreamed of a Temple on Mount Zion where the representatives of all nations should dedicate a Temple of Eternal Peace. Only when all peoples of the earth shall go to THIS temple as pilgrims is eternal peace to become a fact.

More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.