The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.

The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!