“Political problems do not primarily concern truth or falsehood: they relate to good or evil. What in the result is likely to produce evil is politically false; that which is productive of good, politically true.”

Burke

“We, the developing nations, are determined to bring happiness and prosperity to our people and to discard the age-old shackles that have tied us not only politically but economically—the shackles of colonialism and other shackles of our own making.”

Nehru at the Bandung Conference, 1955

“Lee Kuan Yew is one of the most outstanding dynamic minds in world statesmanship today. . .”

Fenner Brockway, M.P. in the House of Commons, 1963

“Mr Lee Kuan Yew is too clever by half. . .”

Tunku Abdul Rahman Prime Minister of Malaysia, 1966