Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Chaim Weizmann, fully Chaim Azirel Weizmann
Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel
"To defy external forces, to rise above circumstances, is to proclaim the sovereignty of the human spirit."
"Monotheism, the supreme importance of perfectibility in this sad, sub-lunar world, the refusal to be bullied by superior force, the right to persist as a minority - these are the leading elements in the Jewish contribution to human progress."
"The world is divided into two groups of nations - those that want to expel the Jews and those that do not want to receive them."
"We may be sons of peddlers but we are the grandsons of prophets."