“The fact is that the Westminster system has not worked anywhere in Africa – not even in England because the Scots and Welsh are moving away from it.”

— P. W. Botha

As Minister of Defence, Port Elizabeth NP Congress, 20 September 1976, as cited in PW Botha in his own words, Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 49

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South African prime minister 1916–2006

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quoted in The Scotsman http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-conservative-candidate-ivor-tiefenbrun-quits-1-478524.
2010

“Culture has been distinguished from the other elements of action by the fact that it is intrinsically transmissible from one action system to another from personality to personality by learning and from social system to social system by diffusion. This is because culture is constituted by "ways of orienting and acting," these ways being "embodied in" meaningful symbols.”

Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) American sociologist

Source: Toward a general theory of action (1951), p. 159

“Ricardo, writing fifty years later than Smith, showed a greater insight into the working of the economic system; but as for the subtlety (whatever demerit there may be in that!) the Scot does not lose by comparison with the Jew.”

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden (1907–2005) British economist

Source: A History of Economic Thought (1939), Chapter IV, The Classical System, p. 176

“Working days in England are not the same as working days in foreign ports, because working days in England, by the custom and habits of the English, if not by their law, do not include Sundays.”

William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher (1815–1899) British lawyer, judge and politician

Nielsen v. Wait (1885), L. R. 16 Q. B. 71.

“The excellent work of Tropfke is an example of the tendency to break away from the mere chronological recital of facts.”

David Eugene Smith (1860–1944) American mathematician

History of Mathematics (1923) Vol.1

“We are an Island. Every soldier that wants to go anywhere out of England - a sailor has got to carry him there on his back.”

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) Royal Navy admiral of the fleet

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