There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.


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If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does...
DAVID HUME
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
DAVID HUME
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
DAVID HUME
You can go in there with the idea that you're going to be an aggressive and effective advocate of th...
BRIT HUME
Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not...
GARY HUME
The slaving poor are incapable of any principles
DAVID HUME
Upon the whole, then it seems undeniable, that nothing can bestow more merit on any human creature t...
DAVID HUME
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
DAVID HUME
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sci...
DAVID HUME
In simple terms, the data shows that in mammals each individual gene uses multiple different mechani...
DAVID HUME
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of suc...
DAVID HUME
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds
DAVID HUME
I have written on all sorts of subjects . . . yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, al...
DAVID HUME
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed t...
DAVID HUME
The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; an...
DAVID HUME
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, ...
DAVID HUME
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to...
DAVID HUME
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence
DAVID HUME
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty
DAVID HUME
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, o...
DAVID HUME
[A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)
DAVID HUME
All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always re...
DAVID HUME
In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be ...
DAVID HUME
MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. So...
BRIT HUME
But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should ...
DAVID HUME
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from...
DAVID HUME
We've had boilers getting overworked, filters plugged on furnaces, and a gas regulator that went bad...
RON HUME
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be ...
DAVID HUME
Everything in the world is purchased by labor
DAVID HUME
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them
DAVID HUME
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if...
DAVID HUME
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past...
DAVID HUME