All Tommy Douglas Quotes
- 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,… Adopt
- Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place. Better
- 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… Abroad
- 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… Closer
- 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… Ability
- 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… Ability
- 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… Afraid
- The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity. Concerned
- 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… Atone
- 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… Belt
- The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads. Bleeding
- 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… Begins
- 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,… Age
- 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… All
- The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it. Any
- 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… Able
- 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… Canada
- Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world. Better
- 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… Air
- 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… Canada
- I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen… All
- Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom. Freedom
- The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone. Backbone
- He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect… Each