“Some people have come to me and said: "O leader, we wish you would form a party, thus saving us from these parties and groupings. My answer was that we are in a period of transition and that my party is the entire people, and I belong to the party of the people. All of us are the party of God, party of right and justice.”

Speech delivered in the gardens of the Shaab Hall (May 1, 1959)
Principles of the 14th July Revolution (1959)

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