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

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Tommy Douglas
Age: 81 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 20
Died: 1986
Died: February 24
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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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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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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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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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I am proud that my daughter believes, as I do, that hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.
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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.
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Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.
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We believe that no nation can survive politically free but economically enslaved.
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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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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.
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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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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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