(Paul Goodman, “Zionism and Liberal Judaism,” Zionist Review, Nov. 1917.)
(d) “When we read in the Book of Isaiah that the prophet of the exile declared that the Jews were God’s witnesses, chosen for a religious purpose and charged with a religious mission, we believe that he was speaking words which were inspired by God.”
(Cl. G. Montefiore, “Outlines of Liberal Judaism,” p. 166. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. 1912.)
(e) “The Jews energetically reject the idea of fusion with the other nationalities and cling firmly to their historical hope, i.e., of world empire.”
(From speech of Dr. Mandelstam, Professor in the University of Kiev, Russia, delivered at the Basel Zionist Congress of 1898. See H. S. Chamberlain’s “The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century,” Vol. I, p. 335. London: John Lane. 1913.)
(f) “The Jew will never be able to assimilate himself; he will never adopt the customs and ways of other peoples. The Jew remains a Jew under all circumstances. Every assimilation is purely exterior.”
(From speech of Rabbi Dr. Leopold Kahn on Zionism, delivered in July, 1901, in the orthodox Jewish school in Pressburg, Idem.)
(g) “The governments of all countries, scourged by anti-Semitism, will serve their own interests in assisting us to obtain the sovereignty we want.”
(Theo. Hertzl, “The Jewish State,” p. 11. Published by the Federation of American Zionists, New York, 1917.)
(h) “Christianity itself seems to Jews only a stage in the preparation of the world for a purified, developed and universalized Judaism.”