Chaim Weizmann Quotes

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• Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
• Lenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before.
• The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence…
• There must not be one law for the Jew and another for the Arabs....In saying this, I do not assume that there are tendencies toward…
• We 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…
• The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied, 'No'....From…
• A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
• There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.
• Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews
• Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We…
• Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.
• Palestine must be built up without violating the legitimate interests of the Arabs.. Palestine is not Rhodesia... 600,0000 Arabs live there, who before the sense…
• He received me not only cordially, but he was also full of confidence with respect to the war. His first words, after he had welcomed…
• We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not…
• I head a nation of a million presidents.
• Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

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