Quotes by Christiaan Wet

• Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.
• The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.
• These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.
• For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.