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Articles:
The patriot
20 February 2019
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce and brave man, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
-Mark Twain
What a difference 40 years makes
20 February 2019
"Repression can only go up to a point. When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and the police, have been proved time and time again in history to have turned their guns on their masters."
- Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, May 5, 1959
Defending the Fascist state
20 February 2019
"If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law - if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states - then what is it?"
- Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, Sept 21, 1955"We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins."
- Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, 1986
Stop at Two
20 February 2019
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"We
must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot
afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than
two... We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first
tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society
with a large number of the physically, intellectually and culturally
anaemic." (1967)