Quote #10
'Seventy years ago we pledged to provide health care for every man, woman and child, regardless of race, colour or financial status... and by God we're going to do it!'
More from Tommy Douglas
- 'The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.'
- 'New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo, …
- 'The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.'
- 'It's the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they…
- 'I am hurt, but I am not slain. I shall lay me down and bleed a while, then rise and fight again.' (originally said by Andrew Barton)
- '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 …
- 'Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.'
- '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 wha…