"But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter"

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

"Power wears out those who don't have it"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"