Jan Smuts Quote

The groans of the dying and the blanched set faces of the dead... were enough to drive away all unwholesome feelings of exultation, and to remind one of the grim reality that war is. And even though these were the faces and the sufferings of our enemy, one had... a deeper sense of the common humanity which knows no racial distinctions.

Smuts in Memoirs of the Boer War, p. 151, as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, Jan Smuts - Man of courage and vision, p. 15. ISBN 978-1-86842-390-3