The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.
Tommy DouglasI 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.
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 DouglasWe 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.
Tommy Douglas