Quotation from Chaim Weizmann “Under Solomon it became an empire. Who knows ? C’est le premier pas qui coûte” — Jul. 7 1937

In a letter to Arthur Balfour's niece, Amy Paterson.

Author : Thematic :
" The kingdom of David was smaller. Under Solomon it became an empire. Who knows ? C’est le premier pas qui coûte. "

Weizmann Letters (1946), vol.18, p.146.
Quoted by Marius Schattner, Histoire de la droite israélienne , Complexes, 1991, p. 166. Details in Yoram Hazony, The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul Basic Books, 2000, p. 393.

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