Tim Buck: Quotes about war

Tim Buck was Canadian politician. Explore interesting quotes on war.

Tim Buck: 28 quotes 0 likes

“[The Mac-Paps] covered the name of Canada with glory, from Jarama to the Ebro, in the greatest battles fought against fascism in the war.”

Tim Buck

Referring to the Canadian The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion who fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War Tim Buck A Conscience for Canada

War

“Less than three months after Japanese capitulation… he discarded all the democratic concepts expressed by his predecessors wartime undertakings… He ditched the Roosevelt thesis and put in first place his declared determination to use the all the power of the government to enable United States imperialism to dominate the post-war world and organize it in its own image.”

Tim Buck

Referring to United States President Harry Truman Tim Buck A Conscience for Canada

War , World

“In the course of waging that war, the people of Canada had shown that it was possible for them to maintain nearly a million men in uniform and at the same time expand all the facilities for production within Canada at an unprecedented speed, including building industries which had never existed in Canada before… and by and large the cost of production in Canada compared favourable with the cost of production anywhere else among the Allies… All of this was accomplished without any foreign investment, without and foreign loans… We were quite capable of self-development.”

Tim Buck

Tim Buck A Conscience for Canada

Men , War , People , Time

“It was clear to me that the invasion changed the whole possibilities of the outcome of the war.”

Tim Buck

Referring to the German invasion of the Soviet Union Tim Buck A Conscience for Canada

War , Change