Paul Douglas quotes

Paul Douglas quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“To be a liberal one doesn't have to be a wastrel.”
-- Paul Douglas

#Politics Quotes
“But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister, Koch and Keen as charlatans...Napoleon said that war is too important to be left to the generals. We go on the assumption in the Senate that foreign relations are too important to be left to the diplomats...this question (on a novel cancer cure) is too important to leave purely to doctors.”
-- Paul Douglas

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“It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an independent scientific investigation.”
-- Paul Douglas

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“I spent a part of ...1923 with...Dr. W.W. Keen...In the ..Civil War....he was a surgeon...and had seen many men die from suppuration of wounds after he had operated. ...He would hold the sutures in his teeth and sharpen his knife on the sole of his boot, after he had raised up his boot from the muddy ground. That was the accepted practice at the time.”
-- Paul Douglas

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“...He went to Scotland and studied under Lister...("Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He was threatened with having his license revoked.") Yet in Lister's hospital virtually no one died as a result of operations because Lister had developed a carbolic acid wash and disinfectant. Dr. Keen came back from Scotland...He was referred to as a crazy Listerite.....He was denied an opportunity to practice in every hospital in Philadelphia.”
-- Paul Douglas

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“Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they let him operate.”
-- Paul Douglas

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“...No one died from infection under Keen. ...He (Keen) began to chronicle the results in statistical articles. He was threatened with expulsion from the Pennsylvania Medical Association.....This was in the 1890's....Finally was accepted as the greatest surgeon in the US. The old man told me - and he started to cry...'I nearly went under. I was nearly shut off.”
-- Paul Douglas

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“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”

Source : New Yorker, 14 May 1960
“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”
“The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.”
“What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”
“Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.”
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

Source : Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.33
“Take it from me, every vote counts.”
“That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many”
“I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.”
“If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.”

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