Told Israel National

Famous quotes containing the words told, israel and/or national:

    “No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind;
    The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 8:5.

    Leaders of ancient Israel asking the last of the judges, Samuel, to appoint a king.

    “I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life ... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.”
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)