Tommy Douglas Quotes

• Estamos todos juntos en este mundo, y la única prueba de nuestro carácter que importa es cómo cuidamos de los menos afortunados entre nosotros. Cómo nos cuidamos los unos a los otros, no cómo nos cuidamos a nosotros mismos. Creo que eso es lo único que realmente importa.

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  Character, Thinking, Helping Others

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• I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they required irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.

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  Believe, Price Tag, People

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

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  Courage, Political, Too Late

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• Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

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  Order, Class, People

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• 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.

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  Home, Greed, Insecurity

  Tommy Douglas' remarks at the Annual Convention of the Saskatchewan CCF in Regina, Canada, July 1951.

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• Mi sueño es que la gente de todo el mundo mire hacia arriba y vea Canadá como una pequeña joya asentada en la cima del continente.

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  Dream, Jewels, People

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• 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. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.

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  Believe, Boys, Thinking

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• We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.

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  Sueño, Personas, Visión

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• The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

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  Democracy, Way

  Tommy Douglas' address at the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities in Saskatoon, March 13, 1951.

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

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  Inspirational, Too Late, World

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• Canadá es como una vaca vieja. Occidente la alimenta. Ontario y Quebec la ordeñan. Y puedes imaginarte lo que está haciendo en las Maritimes.

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  Inspirational, Humorous, Ontario

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. June 29, 1983.

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• Ahora el hombre puede volar por el aire como un pájaro, nadar bajo el océano como un pez, excavar en la tierra como un topo. Si pudiera caminar por la tierra como un hombre, sería el paraíso.

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  Ocean, Men, Air

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• No me importa ser un símbolo, pero no quiero convertirme en un monumento. Hay monumentos por todos los edificios del Parlamento y he visto lo que les hacen las palomas.

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  Mind, Want, Pigeons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Boys, Class, Should Have

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• 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.

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  Country, Greatness, World

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• El problema del gobierno federal [liberal] es que tiene un esqueleto donde debería tener una columna vertebral.

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  Government, Should Have, Political

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• El problema de los socialistas es que se les sube la sangre a la cabeza.

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  Heart, Politics, Bleeding

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• 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.

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  Opponents, Underestimate, Forget

  Tommy Douglas' address at the Provincial Convention, July 16, 1952.

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• We believe that no nation can survive politically free but economically enslaved.

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  Believe, Nations

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a budget debate at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, March 22, 1943.

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• The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

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  Humanity, Tomorrow, Dogma

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• The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.

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  Government, Smell, Know How

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• 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.

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  Men, Political, Promise

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• We agree with the statement contained in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, written by Pope Leo XIII, that "anything which dominates the life of the community should be owned by the community." That is the basis upon which we believe there should be government ownership of monopolistic enterprises.

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  Believe, Government, Community

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a budget debate at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, March 22, 1943.

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• Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.

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  Book, Views, Ideas

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a budget debate at the Saskatchewan Legislature, February 17, 1954.

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

  Tommy Douglas

  People, Spy, Way

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