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 hav…

- Jan Smuts

When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

- Jan Smuts

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

- Jan Smuts

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

- Jan Smuts

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.

- Jan Smuts

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

- Jan Smuts

This is a good world. We need not approve of all the items in it, nor of all the individuals in it; but the world itself-which is more than its parts…

- Jan Smuts

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

- Jan Smuts

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

- Jan Smuts