Tommy Douglas Quotes

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

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 remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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