Tommy Douglas Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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