History
Created by three lawyers, namely Tan Chye Cheng, John Laycock and Nazir Ahmad Mallal, all three founders were educated at the University of London and were three of the six first ever elected legislative councillors in Singapore. It was the first party to appear in Singapore politics.
Read more about this topic: Progressive Party (Singapore)
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945)
“Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.”
—Pierre Bayle (1647–1706)
“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)