Sampson was a Jew – therefore not a idiot. The Jews have the best average brain of any folks in the world. The Jews are the only race who work wholly with their brains and never with their hands. There are no Jewish beggars, no Jewish tramps, no Jewish ditch diggers, hod-carriers, day laborers or followers of toilsome, mechanical trades. They are peculiarly and conspicuously the world’s intellectual aristocracy.

A business cannot thrive where the parties do not trust each other. In the matter of numbers, the Jew counts for little in the overwhelming population of New York, but that his honesty counts for much is guaranteed by the fact that the immense wholesale business of Broadway, from the Battery to Union Square, is substantially in his hands.”

The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, soon after . . . passed away. The Greek and the Roman followed. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts. … All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?

Mark Twain

“I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. whether I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most fundamental instrument for civilizing the nations … They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited that Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or contemporary.”

- John Adams, Second President of the United States
(From a letter to F. A. Van der Kemp [Feb. 16, 1808] Pennsylvania Historical Society)

“whether we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most urgent intellectual development in human history.”

- David Gelernter, Yale University Professor

“…it would be a mistake…to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway by the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages… The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the contemporary world; and whether we could have but eyes to see… we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.”

- U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in his The State

“Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and instant pursuit of a goal… It is the most perpetual society of the earth…”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German dramatist, novelist and poet (1749 - 1832)

“The Jews, however, are beyond all doubt the strongest, toughest, and purest race at present living in Europe; they know how to succeed even under the worst conditions (in fact better than under favorable ones) by means of virtues of some sort, which one would like nowadays to label as vices-owing above all to a resolute faith which does not need to be ashamed before “contemporary idea…

It is assured that the Jew, whether he desired-or whether they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, by Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure… The resourcefulness of the contemporary Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary…”

- Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher (1844 - 1900)

“Some humans like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has arised in the world.”

– Winston Churchill

“The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the eternal fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions.”

–Leo Tolstoy

“It was in vain that we locked them up for several hundred years behind the walls of the Ghetto. No sooner were their prison gates unbarred than they easily caught up with us, even on those paths which we opened up without their aid.”

–A. A. Leroy Beaulieu, French publicist, 1842

“The Jew gave us the Outside and the Inside - our outlook and our inner life. We can hardly get up in the AM or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise, strange, individual, person, vocation, moment, history, future, freedom, progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the Jews.”

–Thomas Cahill, Irish Author

“One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any contemporary man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all.”

–William Rees-Mogg, former Editor-in-Chief for The Times of London and a member of the House of Lords

“It is assured that in undoubtful parts of the world we can see a peculiar society, separated from the other peoples of the world and that is called the Jewish people…. that society is not only of remarkable antiquity but has plus lasted for a singular expanded time… For whereas the public of Greece and Italy, of Sparta, Athens and Rome and others who came so much later have perished so expanded ago, these still exist, despite the efforts of
so many vigorous kings who have tried a hundred times to wipe them out, as their historians testify, and as can easily be judged by the natural order of things by such a towering spell of years. They have always been preserved, however, and their preservation was foretold… My come across with that citizens amazes me…”

–Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician

“The Jewish vision became the prototype for many similar grand designs for humanity, both divine and man made The Jews, therefore, stand at the center of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose.”

–Paul Johnson, American Historian

“As lengthy as the world lasts, all who want to compose progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration as to the citizens who had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest.”

–Matthew Arnold, British poet and critic

“Indeed it is difficult for all other nations of the world to live in the presence of the Jews. It is irritating and most uncomfortable. The Jews embarrass the world as they have done things which are beyond the imaginable. They have become moral strangers since the day their forefather, Abraham, introduced the world to high ethical standards and to the fear of Heaven. They brought the world the Ten Commandments, which many nations prefer to defy. They violated the rules of history by staying alive, totally at odds with common sense and historical evidence. They outlived all their former enemies, including huge empires such as the Romans and the Greeks. They angered the world with their return to their homeland after 2000 years of exile and after the murder of six million of their brothers and sisters.

“They aggravated mankind by building, in the wink of an eye, a democratic State which others were not able to create in even hundreds of years. They built living monuments such as the duty to be holy and the privilege to serve one’s fellow men.

“They had their hands in every human progressive endeavor, whether in science, medicine, psychology or any other discipline, while totally out of proportion to their actual numbers. They gave the world the Bible and even their “savior.”

“Jews taught the world not to accept the world as it is, but to convert it, yet only a few nations wanted to listen. Moreover, the Jews introduced the world to one God, yet only a minority wanted to draw the moral consequences. So the nations of the world realize that they would have been lost without the Jews. And while their subconscious tries to remind them of how much of Western civilization is framed in terms of concepts first articulated by the Jews, they do anything to suppress it.

“They deny that Jews remind them of a higher purpose of life and the need to be honorable, and do anything to escape its consequences. It is simply too much to handle for them, too embarrassing to confess, and above all, too difficult to live by. “So the nations of the world decided once again to go out of ‘their’ way in order to find a stick to hit the Jews. The goal: to prove that Jews are as immoral and guilty of massacre and genocide as some of they themselves are.”All that in order to hide and justify their own failure to even protest when six million Jews were brought to the slaughterhouses of Auschwitz and Dachau; so as to wipe out the moral conscience of which the Jews remind them, and they found a stick.

“Nothing could be more gratifying for them than to find the Jews in a struggle with another society (who are completely terrorized by their own leaders) against whom the Jews, against their best wishes, have to defend themselves in order to survive. With great satisfaction, the world allows and initiates the rewriting of history so as to fuel the rage of yet another folks against the Jews. that in spite of the fact that the nations understand very well that peace within the parties could have come a lengthy instance ago, whether only the Jews would have had a fair chance.”Instead, they happily jumped on the wagon of hate so as to justify their jealousy of the Jews and their incompetence to deal with their own moral issues. When Jews look at the weird play taking place in The Hague, they can only smile as that artificial game once more proves how the world paradoxically admits the Jews uniqueness. It is in their need to undermine the Jews that they actually raise them.

“The study of history of Europe during the past centuries teaches us one uniform lesson: That the nations which received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered; and that the nations that have tortured and oppressed them have written out their own curse.”

–Olive Schreiner, South African novelist and social activist

“whether there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.”

–A.L Rowse, authority on Shakespeare

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