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SG50
50 Years of Singapore Pride
"For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life ... my whole adult life ... I have believed in merger ... and unity of the two territories."
LEE KUAN YEW
FATHER OF A NATION
Lee Kuan Yew was born on 16 September 1923.
He passed away due to pneumonia at 3.18 am on 23 March 2015.
He was 91 years old at his time of death.
He served as MP for Tanjong Pagar for 59 years from 1955, the longest-serving MP in Singapore so far.
He is also the longest-serving Prime Minister of Singapore, serving for 31 years.
More than 1.2 million people payed their tributes to Mr Lee at the Parliament House and community tribute sites, as of 28 March.
MR LEE'S BEST QUOTES
“And even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up.”
"If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one."
"You know the Singaporean. He is a hard-working, industrious, rugged individual. Or we would not have made the grade. But let us also recognise that he is a champion grumbler."
"The Dutch, the British, the French never gave us any technology. They built our universities, but they never taught us engineering. They taught us medicine, law, history, culture. They withheld the modern part of the industrial society."
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