"Learn your lessons, if you wish to, from the Boer War. Those who have been enemies of that [British] empire a few years ago, have now become friends."
— Second Boer War

January 1, 1970

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Mahatma Gandhi in his Benares University Speech (1949), as quoted in The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings, p. 136