Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

We ought not to depend in the degree we have done on supplies from other countries

We must creep before we can walk. Protect the manufacturers for the present, and in a little time, they will protect themselves and us. They have the potential of releasing us from our dependence on foreigners and quieting their intrigues.

In the course of waging that war, the people of Canada had shown that it was possible for them to maintain nearly a million men in uniform and at the same time expand all the facilities for production within Canada at an unprecedented speed, including building industries which had never existed in Canada before... and by and large the cost of production in Canada compared favorable with the cost of production anywhere else among the Allies... All of this was accomplished without any foreign investment, without and foreign loans... We were quite capable of self-development.

India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our first independence, then the seed is the symbol of our second independence."

We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?'

Our celestial empire possesses all things in prolific abundance and lacks no products within its own borders. There is therefore no need to import the manufactures of outside barbarians.

Free Americans deserve the chance to be fully self-supporting.

We must now place the manufacturer beside the agriculturalist... The grand inquiry now is, shall we manufacture our own comforts, or go without them at the will of a foreign nation. He, therefore, who is now against domestic manufacturers must be for reducing us to dependence on that nation, or to be clothed in skins and live like wild beasts in dens and caverns. I am proud to say I am not one of these.

Throughout history households had consumed most of the things that they produced and produced most of what they consumed.

I don't think we can be a great nation unless we can manufacture much of what we consume.

Leaving the E.U. will enable the U.K. to undertake a major campaign for import substitution.

Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.

In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.

It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.

The principle of building an economy without foreign monopoly capital has become a principle which, for us, is no longer subject to amendment.