Jan Smuts Quotes
If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.
What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.
Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.
Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.
If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs.
Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.
Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.
When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.
...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.