Quotes by Tommy Douglas

“Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he is able burrow beneath the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, t...”

“I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“The speech from the throne speaks about maintaining peace - peace today, when Canadian nickel is being indirectly shipped to Ethiopia. Peace today, when Italian aeroplanes are being flown with Brit...”

“I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall there were children going to school in Saskatchewan with only sacking wrapped around the...”

“Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?”

“At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to a green hill far away, without a city wall, where the founder of Christianity was crucified by t...”

“I suggest that the hon. gentleman may be a good corporation lawyer, but he is slipping badly in his history. The capitalist system did not produce the machine age; the machine age produced the capi...”

“What is this free enterprise system? It is the law of the jungle applied to economics. It is the law of every man for himself, as the elephant said when he was dancing among the chickens. That is n...”

“When the war came we were shocked to find, as Mr. Thorson, the then Minister of National War Services said, that forty-six per cent of the men called were rejected because that depression had left ...”

“We agree with the statement contained in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, written by Pope Leo XIII, that anything which dominates the life of the community should be owned by the community. That i...”

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

“Houdini used to pull rabbits out of a hat, but he never tried to make a living out of selling them when he had pulled them out of the hat”

“I am still a little fellow. Mr. Tucker is big enough to swallow me, but if he did, he would be the strangest man in the world. He would have more brains in his stomach than he does in his head.”

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

“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 discor...”

“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.”