Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Azriel WeizmannD.Sc, Sc.D, LL.D was a Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as President of the Zionist Organization and later as the first President of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann convinced the United States government to recognize the newly formed state of Israel...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth27 November 1874
CityMotal, Belarus
CountryIsrael
We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power.
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.
Lenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before.
As scientists the two men were contrasting types—Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter Rutherford was a genius, one of the greatest. He worked by intuition and everything he touched turned to gold. He had a sixth sense.
Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews
On one side, the forces of destruction, the forces of the desert, have risen, and on the other hand stand firm the forces of civilization, but we will not be stopped.
I head a nation of a million presidents.
Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
Miracles do happen, but you have to work hard at them.
The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy. . . The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.
The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied, 'No'....From the depths of the tragedy I want to save two million young people...The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world...Only the branch of the young shall survive...They have to accept it.
There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.
Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.