Herbert Hoover Quotes

If ever I have the occasion to help in the restoration of the Jewish people to Palestine, I shall surely do so.

I am very glad to express my approval and hearty sympathy … in behalf of restoration of Palestine as a homeland for the Jewish people.

Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable.

I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.

A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.

I am a Zionist!

Water is the basis for Jewish existence in the Land of Israel.

It would be unjust to deny the rights of the Jewish people to realize their aspirations to establish their own state.

Zionism aims to create for the Jewish people a publicly recognized and legally secured home in Palestine.

If the Jewish people want to have an independent state, they must always have the sword in one hand.

The Jewish people remember the dramatic vote in the U.N. Assembly on November 29, 1947, when representatives of the nations recognized our right to national revival in our historic homeland.

For those who share my view that the Jews as a people have a right to self-determination, Zionism as a national movement of the Jewish people is the embodiment of this very right, which its opponents want to deny.

Israelis are the total Jews.

Americans are connected to the situation in the West Bank and Gaza and Israel because, generally speaking, Jewish Americans were always there, and many American Jewish people connect their nationality to the Israeli one.

I am a Jew, and I'm convinced that Israel is the homeland.

Something happened to the State of Israel. What was morally obvious in 1948 is not so obvious anymore. When the State of Israel was established, it was, for the parents and grandparents of these young Jews, a miracle. It was David and Goliath. We were the just cause. It was about values. We were small, but we were the good guys in the world!

Here, in the Land of Israel, we returned and built a nation. Here, in the Land of Israel, we established a State. The Land of the prophets, which bequeathed to the world the values of morality, law and justice, was after two thousand years, restored to its lawful owner - the members of the Jewish People, On its Land, we have built an exceptional national Home and State.

At the heart of anti-Semitism lies Moses. He made a catastrophic error, a terrible mistake, and all anti-Semitism for two thousand years stems from his misjudgement. Moses said we Jews could remain a people without having a land. He said we don't need territory to hold onto our Jewish identity. This was a disaster.

Israel always has a special filter to look at things, and that is the attitude toward Jews.

I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.

When I was a child, Israel was a legend more than a reality. She emerged from a dream, and today she has surpassed that dream.

The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.

As a youth, I was much more of a Zionist. But Israel was very different then. Israel's changed, and so have I.