Tommy Douglas Quotes

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• 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 us. How we look after each other, not how we look after ourselves. That's all that really matters, I think.

  Tommy Douglas

  Character, Thinking, Helping Others

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• 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 health services they required irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.

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  Believe, Price Tag, People

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

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  Courage, Political, Too Late

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• 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 order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

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  Order, Class, People

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• 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 economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.

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  Home, Greed, Insecurity

  Tommy Douglas' remarks at the Annual Convention of the Saskatchewan CCF in Regina, Canada, July 1951.

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• 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 money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, 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 health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.

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  Believe, Boys, Thinking

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• 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 continent.

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  Dream, Jewels, People

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

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  Democracy, Way

  Tommy Douglas' address at the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities in Saskatoon, March 13, 1951.

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• 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 no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.

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  Dream, People, Vision

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• Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.

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  Inspirational, Too Late, World

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• 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 Maritimes.

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  Inspirational, Humorous, Ontario

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. June 29, 1983.

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• 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 what the pigeons do to them.

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  Mind, Want, Pigeons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

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  Ocean, Men, Air

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• 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 money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

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  Boys, Class, Should Have

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• 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 stand in the forefront of the nations of the world although there are signs that we are becoming conscious of our deficiencies and are determined to atone for lost time.

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  Country, Greatness, World

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

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  Government, Should Have, Political

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• The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

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  Heart, Politics, Bleeding

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• 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 their opposition become.

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  Opponents, Underestimate, Forget

  Tommy Douglas' address at the Provincial Convention, July 16, 1952.

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• We believe that no nation can survive politically free but economically enslaved.

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  Believe, Nations

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a budget debate at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, March 22, 1943.

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• The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

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  Humanity, Tomorrow, Dogma

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• 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 them from each other.

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  Men, Political, Promise

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

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  Daughter, Children, Believe

  Ottawa Journal, October 5, 1969.

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• The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.

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  Government, Smell, Know How

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• 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 is when you have no belt to tighten and your pants fall down.

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  Fall, Pants, Panic

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers.

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  Country, Attitude, Driving

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during the debate on the proposed Omnibus bill to decriminalize homosexuality, 1968.

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