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Quote from Jan C. Smuts,


"Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings."


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Jan C. Smuts (more quotes by Jan C. Smuts or books by/about Jan C. Smuts)


(1870-1950) South African and British Commonwealth politician and military leader, Prime Minister of South Africa (1939-48), helped found both the League of Nations and the United Nations (he wrote the preamble of the UN Charter)

Source:

Address at St. Andrews University, 1934

Categories:

Democracy, Peace, Tyranny, War

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