"There is only one possible settlement – war! It has got to come ... The difficulty is in the occasion and not the job itself, that is very easily done and I think nothing of the bogies and difficulties of settling South Africa afterwards. You will find a very different tone and temper when the center of unrest is dealt with."

“The prospects for peace were, "even blacker than a year ago.”

“...the impracticability of governing natives, who, at best, are children, needing and appreciating just paternal government, on the same principles as apply to the government of full-grown men.”

“My own disposition is against being in the government unless I am part of the Supreme Direction.”

“If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.”

“If, ten years hence, there are three men of British race to two of Dutch, the country will be safe and prosperous.”

“Instead of it having been a war to end wars - it is a Peace to end Peace.”