Christiaan Rudolf de Wet Quotes

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.

– Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.

– Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

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.

– Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

– Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

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