Quote #4

'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.'

More from Tommy Douglas

  1. 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…
  2. 'Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.'
  3. '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…
  4. '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 …
  5. '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; …
  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.'

All Tommy Douglas quotes