Tommy Douglas

I am proud that my daughter believes, as I do, that hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or…

— Tommy Douglas

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.

— Tommy Douglas

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the…

— Tommy Douglas

A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt.…

— Tommy Douglas

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be…

— Tommy Douglas

We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the…

— Tommy Douglas

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

— Tommy Douglas

If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it…

— Tommy Douglas

I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall…

— Tommy Douglas

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the…

— Tommy Douglas

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

— Tommy Douglas

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

— Tommy Douglas

We agree with the statement contained in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, written by Pope Leo XIII, that "anything which dominates the life…

— Tommy Douglas

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

— Tommy Douglas

I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able…

— Tommy Douglas

We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious…

— Tommy Douglas

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people…

— Tommy Douglas

I went around to the little schoolhouses, talking like a professor, explaining our platform. We were lucky if the collection gave us…

— Tommy Douglas

We are not anti-American. We do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do…

— Tommy Douglas

The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.

— Tommy Douglas

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's…

— Tommy Douglas

Houdini used to pull rabbits out of a hat, but he never tried to make a living out of selling them when…

— Tommy Douglas

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents…

— Tommy Douglas

We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but…

— Tommy Douglas

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents…

— Tommy Douglas