“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such person, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck.” –Thomas Jefferson, 1822
“I have sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine.”—Calvin Coolidge
My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin – Binyamin – the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there’s been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since. Benjamin Netanyahu
“I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.”—John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson
“Israel is the child of hope and the home of the brave . . . It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.”—JFK
“No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.” —David Ben-Gurion
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.”—Winston Churchill
“The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a greater measure than they have it now, they may change their rulers, and the forms of government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty.” —John Adams, letter to Zabdiel Adams, 1776
“On Rosh Hashanah all human beings pass before Him as troops, as it is said, ‘the Lord looks down from heaven, He sees all mankind. From His dwelling place He gazes on all the inhabitants of the earth, He who fashions the hearts of them all, who discerns all their doings.’” – Rabbi Dr. Reuven…
“Israel is the only state in the world whose legitimacy is widely denied, and whose destruction is publicly advocated and threatened.”–British historian Anthony Julius