"Preservation of the special character of nations is essential for progress." ~~ Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky
"A people’s memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better." ~~ Isaac Peretz
"The Jews are God’s stake in human history." ~~ A. J. Heschel
"When you whitewash your home, leave a small patch bare to remind you of the Temple’s destruction! [Tisha B”Av] " ~~ Talmud, Bava Batra
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. " ~~ Golda Meir
"Draw from the past, live in the present, work for the future!" ~~ Abraham Geiger
"As the generation, so the leader; as the leader, so the generation. " ~~ Talmud Yerushalmi, Sanhedrin
"Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it." ~~ Solomon Schechter
"Our task today is harder than Moses’; he had only to deliver Israel from one Egypt, we must deliver it from many." ~~ Manachem Ussishkin
"I have pitched my tent on these ancient hills and my desire is to tie together the ends of the thread that history broke." ~~ Reubin Rubin
"All ancient people praised the Golden Era of the past. Only the Jews tell wonders of the golden Era still to come." ~~ Joseph Klausner
"The concept of history is the product of Prophetism." ~~ Hermann Cohen
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