I don't want to be married. I don't know - it sounds crazy, but in my mind, it's all connected. You get married, you have kids, you grow old, then you die. Somehow, it seems to me, if you didn't… — John Burns Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. — John Burns Copy Share
I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present… — John Burns Copy Share
For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way. — John Burns Copy Share
I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising… — John Burns Copy Share
I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how? — John Burns Copy Share
I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come. — John Burns Copy Share
The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now… — John Burns Copy Share
