Quotes by 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.”

“I felt something like the man on the resurrection morning who was reading his own tombstone and said either someone is an awful liar or I'm in the wrong hole.”

“In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.”

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

“We are not anti-American. we do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrigh...”

“To accept the principle 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.”

“I went around to the little schoolhouses, talking like a professor, explaining our platform. We were lucky if the collection gave us enough for gas to get to the next place. We encouraged questions...”

“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 expl...”

“Tommy Douglas Speaks, Edited by L.D. Lovick, Douglas & McIntyre Vancouver, 1979, ISBN 0-88894-262-1.”