John Burns Quotes

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• I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
• The Thames is liquid history.
• I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform…
• In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their…
• I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with…
• Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
• Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
• I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not…
• You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean…
• I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
• I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.
• Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.
• My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.
• 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 degrades…
• The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.
• Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
• For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
• I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?
• I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.
• Don't hustle old people.

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