If you will, it is no legend...

— Theodor Herzl Prefix to Altneuland [The Old New Land (1902)

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Originally in German: Wenn ihr wollt, ist es kein Märchen... which was intended to have the double meaning of a strong will shall eventually be realized, and as part of a paragraph ending as a postfix to the book, that this book perhaps will be seen as a true story, but even if not... | Note: The Israeli rightist movement "Im Tirzu" (Literally: 'If you will') is named after this quote.

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Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.

All people's actions were once a dream and all peoples actions will someday be a dream.

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Let me tell you that my friend and I do not discriminate between humans. We do not ask what race or what religion he is from. He has to be a human being. That is all that's important for us.

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Were I to sum up the Basel Congress in a word — which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly — it would be this: At Basel, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. Perhaps in five years, certainly in fifty, everyone will know it.

We are a people — one people.
We have honestly endeavored everywhere to merge ourselves in the social life of surrounding communities and to preserve the faith of our fathers. We are not permitted to do so.

Der Judenstaat (Engl. The Jewish State) (1896)

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If you will, it is no legend...

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