Lenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before.
Chaim WeizmannIndependence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.
Chaim WeizmannWe will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.
Chaim WeizmannThere are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.
Chaim WeizmannThe poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy. . . The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.
Chaim Weizmann