Paul Kruger Quotes

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A bill of indemnity…for raid by Dr. Jameson and the British South Africa Company's troops. The amount falls under two heads—first, material damage, total of claim, £677,938 3s. 3d.—second, moral or intellectual damage, total of claim, £1,000,000.
Telegram on behalf of the South African government to the House of Commons

Paul Kruger
They have asked me for my trousers, and I have given them; for my coat, and I have given that also; now they want my life, and that I cannot give.

Paul Kruger
With confidence we lay our case open before the whole world. Whether we conquer or whether we die: Freedom shall rise in Africa like the sun from the morning clouds.

Paul Kruger
Born under the English flag, I do not wish to die under it.
His last message to his people

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Search in your past for what is good and beautiful. Build your future from there.

Paul Kruger
If you become indifferent to your language, you also become indifferent to your forefathers and indifferent to the Bible and indifferent to your religion.

Paul Kruger
It is a good thing to learn foreign languages, especially the language of your neighbors with whom you have most to do; but let any foreign language be a second language to you.

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Stand firm by God's Word, in which your parents have brought you up. Love that Word.

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Wealth cannot break laws. Though a man has a million pounds he cannot alter the law.

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It is the unthankful people to whom I have given protection who are always dissatisfied, and, what is more, they actually want me to alter my laws to suit them.

Paul Kruger