Tommy Douglas Short Quotes

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The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

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My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea.

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In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.

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We believe that no nation can survive politically free but economically enslaved.

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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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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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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 felt something like the man on the resurrection morning who was reading his own tombstone and said either someone is an awful liar or I'm in the wrong hole.

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We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will their opposition become.

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Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.

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Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?

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I am still a little fellow. Mr. Tucker is big enough to swallow me, but if he did, he would be the strangest man in the world. He would have more brains in his stomach than he does in his head.

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