"I'm sick of the British Empire and the All Red, and the 'immense future.' What I want is the present.

It's about big enough for you and me and the rest of us.

I want to hold our own in Johannesburg.

I want to pull thirty-five millions a year out of the eighty miles of reef, and get enough native labour to do it.

I want to run the Rand like a business concern, with Kruger gone to Holland; and Leyds gone to blazes.