"Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up."
— Lee Kuan Yew

January 1, 1970

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1988 National Day Rally, when he discussed the leadership transition to Goh Chok Tong in 1990. As quoted in The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: Volume 2, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries