The Best Tommy Douglas quotes

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

I’m sure that the standard of public morality we’ve helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance. — Tommy Douglas

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

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. — Tommy Douglas

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. — Tommy Douglas

The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don’t know how bad the stable is going to smell. — Tommy Douglas

We believe that no nation can survive politically free but economically enslaved. — Tommy Douglas

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. — Tommy Douglas

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. — Tommy Douglas

The [Liberal] federal government’s trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone. — Tommy Douglas

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity. — 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 doing in the Maritimes. — Tommy Douglas

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. — Tommy Douglas

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. — Tommy Douglas

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. — Tommy Douglas

Courage, my friends; ’tis not too late to build a better world. — Tommy Douglas

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

Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven’t the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold. — Tommy Douglas

To accept the principal that ‘all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun’ is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns. — Tommy Douglas

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. — Tommy Douglas

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. — Tommy Douglas