Give me good mothers and I will give you a good nation.

Perhaps it was history that ordained that it be here, at the Cape of Good Hope that we should lay the foundation stone of our new nation. For it was here at this Cape, over three centuries ago, that there began the fateful convergence of the peoples of Africa, Europe and Asia on these shores.

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits.

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

A youthful nation like ours must leave an impact in the entire world.

The nation is everything, and serving the people is akin to serving God.