"I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is……" — Lee Kuan Yew
"I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us"
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85 Quotes by Lee Kuan Yew
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I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the…
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Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something…
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I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability…
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I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been,…
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Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my…
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Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe…
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If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in…
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You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative…
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That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I…
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If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.
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If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence…
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But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that…
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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That…
— Theodore Dwight Weld
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My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.
— William Shakespeare
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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and…
— James A. Baldwin
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Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for…
— Samuel Adams
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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of…
— Felix Frankfurter
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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.
— Francis Bacon
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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of…
— Tecumseh
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Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.
— Douglas Wilson
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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it…
— C.S. Lewis
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We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that…
— Jerry A. Coyne
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