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Ian Smith

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Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.


— Ian Smith


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If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.


— Ian Smith


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Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.


— Ian Smith


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Every human being makes mistakes.


— Ian Smith


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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!


— Ian Smith


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I always try to be reasonable and effective.


— Ian Smith


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I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.


— Ian Smith


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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.


— Ian Smith


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The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.


— Ian Smith


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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.


— Ian Smith


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However ZANU and ZAPU did not participate because they opposed the internal settlement. Regarding his decision to start farming Smith remarked "[c]ommerce and economics are associated with mathematics. According to Smith the trespassers were shocked to learn the police were coming to his aid and in his own words "beat it" before law enforcement even arrived.

This still did not lead to international recognition for the country however and it was only in 1980 after the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement the British-supervised election of Robert Mugabe as prime minister in April 1980 and the adoption of the name Zimbabwe that international acceptance came. Frustrated by repeated failures to achieve this goal by negotiation with the British who insisted on an immediate handover to the African nationalists Smith's government unilaterally declared Rhodesia's independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965. He served as the UFP's Chief Whip in the Federal Assembly from 1958 to 1962 before resigning to help form the pro-independence Rhodesia Reform Party which shortly merged with the Dominion Party to form the Rhodesian Front (RF).

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