Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.” ~ 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