Quotes by Tommy Douglas

About Tommy Douglas:

Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas was 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 (CCF). 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.
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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.

Tommy Douglas

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.

Tommy Douglas

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.

Tommy Douglas

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.

Tommy Douglas

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.

Tommy Douglas

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

Tommy Douglas

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

Tommy Douglas

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

Tommy Douglas

Author Bio

  • NameTommy Douglas
  • DescriptionScottish-born Canadian politician
  • BornOctober 20, 1904
  • DiedFebruary 24, 1986
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionPolitician; Minister; Cleric
  • AwardsThe Greatest Canadian; Companion Of The Order Of Canada; Saskatchewan Order Of Merit; Queen's Privy Council For Canada; Canadian Medical Hall Of Fame