Quotes by Tommy Douglas
“Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do.”— Tommy Douglas
“The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.”— Tommy Douglas
“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.”— Tommy Douglas
“The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.”— Tommy Douglas
“What we want is not a dole but a job. We want to be citizens, not wards of the state. We want to be men, not mendicants.”— Tommy Douglas
“Man can now fly in the air like a bird, and swim in the sea like a fish; but he has not yet learned to walk on the earth like a brother.”— Tommy Douglas