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. – Tommy Douglas
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
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. – Tommy Douglas
I’m sure that the standard of public morality we’ve helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance. – Tommy Douglas
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. – Tommy Douglas
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. – Tommy Douglas
