Tommy Douglas
Tommy Douglas
Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, PC CC SOMwas a Canadian social democratic politician and Baptist minister. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. He left federal politics to become the Saskatchewan CCF's leader and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961. His government was the first democratic socialist government in North America, and it introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 October 1904
Tommy Douglas quotes about
imperialism plain-speaking said
We are not anti-American. we do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.
opponents underestimate forget
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.
democracy way
The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.