Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

I have always believed and I still believe that it is the Red Army that has torn the guts out of the filthy Nazis.

Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.