Lee Kuan Yew vs. Winston Churchill
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Lee Kuan Yew
1923 – 2015
Lee Kuan Yew, often referred to by his initials LKY, was a Singaporean statesman and barrister who was the first prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. A founding father of the modern Singaporean state, his authoritarian political leadership transformed post-independence Singapore into a highly developed country and one of the four Asian Tigers.
"Look, Jeyaretnam can't win the infighting. I'll tell you why. WE are in charge. Every government ministry and department is under our control. And in the infigh…"
Winston Churchill
1940 – 2010
Winston Churchill (1874) was a British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II, and Nobel Prize winner in Literature.
"Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
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