“Some of you will not come back. Some of you will come back maimed. Those of you who do come back will come back changed men. That is war!”
When seeing off young South Africans in World War II, as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, Jan Smuts – Man of courage and vision, p. 138. ISBN 978-1-86842-390-3
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