“While we were flying above Jerusalem it seemed to me as though we were looking down — on Eternity! Jerusalem stands on a barron plateau, aloof, waterless and on the road to nowhere. Yet this city more than Athens and more than Rome has taught the nations civic justice, and has given its name to that ideal city in Heaven — The New Jerusalem, the City of God.”

-Lowell Thomas
“With Allenby in Palestine” (1919)