Tommy Douglas Quotes

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• If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime,…
• Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.
• The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are…
• We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will…
• I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough…
• I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough…
• We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but where there is…
• The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.
• It has been said that a country’s greatness can be measured by what it does for its unfortunates. By that criterion Canada certainly does not…
• A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a panic…
• The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.
• Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in…
• I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew,…
• We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among…
• The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.
• I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever…
• My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the…
• Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.
• Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a…
• Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the…

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