“What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?”

[But if things continue the way they are] …the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war.

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

We can’t ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

The right place for the League of Nations is not Geneva or the Hague, Ascher Ginsberg has dreamed of a Temple on Mount Zion where the representatives of all nations should dedicate a Temple of Eternal Peace.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

Only when all peoples of the earth shall go to THIS temple as pilgrims is eternal peace to become a fact.

The Arab, like all sons of Sham, has sharp and crafty mind . . . Should time come when life of our people in Palestine imposes to a smaller or greater extent on the natives, they WILL NOT easily step aside.

More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.

We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR.

More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

Our national motto is ‘In God we Trust,’ reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.

Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.

The evidence of widespread knowledge, corruption, and collusion on behalf of the Biden family with foreign nationals is clear and compelling.

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate.