Quote #3

There once was a parliamentarian from our west who said: '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.' (June 29, 1983)

More from Tommy Douglas

  1. 'In this chamber, sir, a man's stature is measured from the shoulders up.' (responding to a Member of Parliament's quip about Douglas' dimi…
  2. '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…
  3. 'Instead of treating [homosexuality] as a crime and driving it underground we ought to recognize it for what it is. It's a mental illness; …
  4. 'Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.'
  5. '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 …
  6. '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)
  7. 'The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.'
  8. 'The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.'

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