Tommy Douglas
Tommy Douglas
Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, PC CC SOMwas a Canadian social democratic politician and Baptist minister. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. He left federal politics to become the Saskatchewan CCF's leader and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961. His government was the first democratic socialist government in North America, and it introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 October 1904
opponents underestimate forget
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.
heart bleeding trouble
The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.
smell government knows
The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.
country attitude driving
If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers.
men promise politics
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.
humanity tomorrow dogma
The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.
believe nations
We believe that no nation can survive politically free but economically enslaved.
country greatness doe
It has been said that a country’s greatness can be measured by what it does for its unfortunates. By that criterion Canada certainly does not stand in the forefront of the nations of the world although there are signs that we are becoming conscious of our deficiencies and are determined to atone for lost time.
ocean men air
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.
imperialism plain-speaking said
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 forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.
should-have government politics
The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.
boys should-have class
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,
home greed competition
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.
mind want pigeons
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.