We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among us. How we look after each other, not how we look after ourselves. That's all that really matters, I think.
Tommy DouglasMan 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 DouglasHe 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.
Tommy DouglasWe should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams wonโt all come true; we wonโt 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.
Tommy DouglasThe Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.
Tommy DouglasI 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.
Tommy Douglas