Tommy Douglas Quotes - Page 2

• I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall there were children going to school in Saskatchewan with only sacking wrapped around their feet. We have gone into homes and found mothers and children lying on piles of bedding in the corner; they did not have the proper bedding equipment or the proper clothing to meet the rigours of a very cold winter.

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  Mother, Children, Lying

  Tommy Douglas' maiden speech at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, February 11, 1936.

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

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  People, Spy, Way

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• En Washington tienen sus halcones y palomas y en Ottawa tenemos nuestros loros.

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  Ottawa, Hawks, Dove

  Tommy Douglas' remarks on Canadians policy on the Vietnam War during a debate at the House of Commons, February 13, 1967.

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• The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.

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  Play, Tunes, Bulls

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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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• 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.

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  Fall, Pants, Panic

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

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• We are not anti-American. We do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.

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  Imperialism, Plain Speaking, Said

  Tommy Douglas' speech at NDP National Convention in Ottawa, Ontario, April 21, 1971.

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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.

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  Girl, Years, People

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• To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

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  Gun, Accepting, Barrels

  Tommy Douglas' speech at Luther College in Regina, Saskatchewan, March 16, 1973.

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• 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

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  Rabbits, Hats, Selling

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a budget debate at the Saskatchewan Legislature, March 18, 1947.

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• En esta época del año nos acercamos al Viernes Santo. Todos los ojos del mundo se volverán hacia "una verde colina lejana, sin murallas", donde el fundador del cristianismo fue crucificado por las fuerzas del egoísmo, la codicia y el afán de lucro que siguen actuando en el mundo. Me parece que, a menos que hagamos algo en Canadá sobre la cuestión de la exportación de material bélico, habrá otra crucifixión: la crucifixión de una generación de jóvenes, crucificados en una cruz de níquel.

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  Friday, Wall, War

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a debate at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939.

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• 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.

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  Believe, Russia, Talking

  "Tommy Douglas". Book by Doris French Shackleton, 1983.

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• ¿Será un gran consuelo para ciertos chicos canadienses saber que la bala que les mutiló de por vida estaba hecha de níquel canadiense vendido por la International Nickel Company?

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  Boys, Comfort, Bullets

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a debate at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939.

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