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== Quotes ==

== Quotes by leaders ==

* Shall we, with our inheritance, do less than the Irish, the Serbians, or the Bulgars? And must we not, like them, have a land where the Jewish life may be naturally led, the Jewish language spoken, and the Jewish spirit prevail?

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*We come to Zion only by way of Zion.

**[~~https~~://~~plato~~.~~stanford.edu/entries/buber/~~ Martin Buber], ''Zion als Ziel und Aujgabe'', 1936.

**[[zionism-israel:/bio/Martin_Buber.htm|Martin Buber]], ''Zion als Ziel und Aujgabe'', 1936.

*Political Zionism is problematic for obvious reasons. But I can never forget what it achieved as a moral force in an era of complete dissolution. It helped to stem the tide of ‘progressive’ leveling of venerable, ancestral differences; it fulfilled a conservative function.

** [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/strauss-leo/ Leo Strauss], ''Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought'', 1997, State University of New York Press, pp. 413–14.

==Other notables==

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*Before, or at least along with, the redemption of the soil there must be also the redemption of the soul.

**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judah-Leib-Gordon Judah Leib Gordon], letter to S. Bernfeld, Jan. 31, 1888. ''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ien.35556039672548 Igrot, ii]''. p. 248.

*Political Zionism is problematic for obvious reasons. But I can never forget what it achieved as a moral force in an era of complete dissolution. It helped to stem the tide of ‘progressive’ leveling of venerable, ancestral differences; it fulfilled a conservative function.

** [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/strauss-leo/ Leo Strauss], ''Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought'', 1997, State University of New York Press, pp. 413–14.

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 * Shall we, with our inheritance, do less than the Irish, the Serbians, or the Bulgars? And must we not, like them, have a land where the Jewish life may be naturally led, the Jewish language spoken, and the Jewish spirit prevail?
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 *We come to Zion only by way of Zion.
-**[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buber/ Martin Buber], ''Zion als Ziel und Aujgabe'', 1936.
+**[[zionism-israel:/bio/Martin_Buber.htm|Martin Buber]], ''Zion als Ziel und Aujgabe'', 1936.
-*Political Zionism is problematic for obvious reasons. But I can never forget what it achieved as a moral force in an era of complete dissolution. It helped to stem the tide of ‘progressive’ leveling of venerable, ancestral differences; it fulfilled a conservative function.
-** [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/strauss-leo/ Leo Strauss], ''Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought'', 1997, State University of New York Press, pp. 413–14.
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 *Before, or at least along with, the redemption of the soil there must be also the redemption of the soul.
 **[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judah-Leib-Gordon Judah Leib Gordon], letter to S. Bernfeld, Jan. 31, 1888. ''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ien.35556039672548 Igrot, ii]''. p. 248.
+*Political Zionism is problematic for obvious reasons. But I can never forget what it achieved as a moral force in an era of complete dissolution. It helped to stem the tide of ‘progressive’ leveling of venerable, ancestral differences; it fulfilled a conservative function.
+** [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/strauss-leo/ Leo Strauss], ''Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought'', 1997, State University of New York Press, pp. 413–14.
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