Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.

If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies - it will fall apart on its own.

The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

The rainbow has come to be the symbol of our nation.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation.