Tommy Douglas quotes

" "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." " # Age and Aging # Love # Paradise

" "Instead of treating [homosexuality] 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, which ought to be treated by psychiatrists and social workers." " # Psychiatry # Friends and Friendship # Crime and Criminals

" "In this chamber, sir, a man's stature is measured from the shoulders up." (responding to a Member of Parliament's quip about Douglas' diminutive frame) " # Argument # Parliament # Thoughts and Thinking

" There once was a parliamentarian from our west who said: "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." (June 29, 1983) " # Nations # Imagination # Freedom

" "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." " # Behavior # Parliament # Love

" "Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world." " # Courage # Love # Friends and Friendship

" "I am hurt, but I am not slain. I shall lay me down and bleed a while, then rise and fight again." (originally said by Andrew Barton) " # Friends and Friendship # Love # Books - Reading

" "The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone." " # Action # Government # Liberals

" "The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don’t know how bad the stable is going to smell." " # Government # Liberals # Peace

" "Seventy years ago we pledged to provide health care for every man, woman and child, regardless of race, colour or financial status... and by God we're going to do it!" " # Age and Aging # Children # Health