The Jew as a Patriot
Every student of the Hebrew language is aware that we have in the conjugation of its verbs a mood known as the Intensive (Piel) Voice, which by means of an almost imperceptible modification of vowel points intensifies the meaning of the primitive root. A similar significance seems to attach to the Jews themselves in connexion with the people among whom they dwell. They are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
EMMA LAZARUS, 1882.
Loyalty to the flag for which the sun once stood still, can only deepen our devotion to the flag on which the sun never sets.
Col. A. E. GOLDSMID, 1902.