Quotes by Tommy Douglas

Tommy Douglas

A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a panic is when you have no belt to tighten and your pants fall down.

Fall

Panic

Pants

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.

Humorous

Inspirational

Ontario

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

Inspirational

Too Late

World

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

Courage

Political

Too Late

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.

Men

Political

Promise

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

Hats

Rabbits

Selling

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.

Mind

Pigeons

Want

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.

Boys

Class

Should Have

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.

Girl

People

Years

I went around to the little schoolhouses, talking like a professor, explaining our platform. We were lucky if the collection gave us enough for gas to get to the next place. We encouraged questions, and people asked us if it was true we were going to take their farms, like the Soviets in Russia, and did we believe in God.

Believe

Russia

Talking

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Quotes by Tommy Douglas

Tommy Douglas

A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a panic is when you have no belt to tighten and your pants fall down.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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