Tommy Douglas Quotes

Tommy Douglas — Canadian Clergyman born on October 20, 1904, died on February 24, 1986

Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, PC CC SOM 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. 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... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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

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.

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 Quotes

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