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Theodor Herzl Biography

Theodor Herzl (Hebrew: תאודור הֶרְצֵל‬ Te'odor Hertsel, Hungarian: Herzl Tivadar; May 2, 1860 – July 3, 1904), Hebrew name given at his brit milah Binyamin Ze'ev (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין זְאֵב‬), also known in Hebrew as חוֹזֵה הַמְדִינָה‬, Chozeh HaMedinah (lit. "Visionary of the State") was an Austro-Hungarian journalist, playwright, political activist, and writer who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state. Though he died before its establishment, he is known as the father of the State of Israel.

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Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: 'At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it. '

Basle, Israel, Jewish, Laughter, State, Years

Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

Dream, Dreams, Ribbons, Song, Tree

If you will it, it is no dream; and if you do not will it, a dream it is and a dream it will stay

Dream, Ifs, Stay

When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years of inhumanity, intolerance, and uncleanliness lie in the foul-smelling alleys. . . The amiable dreamer of Nazareth has only contributed to increasing the hatred. . . What superstition and fanaticism on every side!

Alleys, Hatred, Lying, Thee, Uncleanliness, Years

What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.

Moral, People, Rehabilitation, Unfortunate, Want

Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.

Circles, Incapable, Men, Notions, Routine, Transcending

I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose.

Iron, Palestine, Seeing

If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created.

Branches, Destroyed, Long, States

If you will it, it is no dream

Dream, Human Nature, Ifs

The body is a marvelous machine. . . a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels

Full, House, Laboratory, Machines, Secret, Secrets

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

Father, Home, Jews, Noted, Reason, Thinking

Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.

Country, Despise, Hate, Humanity, Nothing, United

The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.

Jewish, Movement, Necessity, People, Principles, Spirit

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

Home, Homes, Political, Pressure, Shifting

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

Give, Giving, Removing, Roots, Wish

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.

Antagonism, Beautiful, Dream, Essential, Men, Universal

When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

Become, Party, Purses, Revolutionary, Sink, Terrible

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Colonization, Failure, National, Succeed

We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.

Coming, Destiny, Jewry, Organizing

Our first object is. . . the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

Firsts, International, Law, Portion, Requirements

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