Jan Smuts

"The free creativeness of mind is possible because, the world ultimately exists, not of material stuff, but of patterns, of organization, the evolution of which involves no absolute creation of an alie…"

"We do not want new orders. What the world wants is an old order of 2,000 years ago – the order of the man of Galilee."

"You cannot defeat Russia. Napoleon learned this to his cost and so will the rest of the world. I do not know whether Bolshevism is advancing or subsiding. There comes a time when the fiercest fires di…"

"The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The em…"

"Just as we preach a "black peril" so they will begin to speak of a "white peril" and of the hostility the white men have toward them."

"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."

"We did so, and I think not without some success. Gradually we have seen emerging out of these discordant elements the lineaments of a new South Africa. We have not yet the whole, we have not yet a rea…"

"A Literary Remembrance" by Alan Paton, Time"