Quotes by John Burns - Page 1

Don't hustle old people.
John Burns / Politician
Hustle
Old People
People
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The Thames is liquid history.
John Burns / Politician
History
Liquid
Thames
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My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.
John Burns / Politician
Cost
Done
Duty
Costs
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I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.
John Burns / Politician
Ashamed
Son
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I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.
John Burns / Politician
Boys
Pencils
Use
Writing
Boy
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The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.
John Burns / Politician
England
Europe
Gentlemen
Serve
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Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.
John Burns / Politician
Fighting
Four
Serbia
Should
Fellow
Powers
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I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.
John Burns / Politician
Brutality
Country
Depressing
Sweeping
Wave
Depressed
Rather
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Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
John Burns / Politician
Action
Book
Real
Solace
Friendships
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Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
John Burns / Politician
Men
Judging
Labels
Labour
Progress
Judge
Slow
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For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
John Burns / Politician
Action
Denied
Events
Way
Time Great Moment
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Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
John Burns / Politician
Effort
Impossible
Individual Effort
Poverty
Big Problem
Cope
Relatively
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I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?
John Burns / Politician
Believe
Events
I Believe
Believe Will I Believe
Believe I Believe Must
Respond
Impending
Whom
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I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
John Burns / Politician
Eugenics
Hours
Recognise
Socialism
Theoretical
Construct
Ended
Hour
Purely
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I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
John Burns / Politician
Cleanliness
Drink
Impressed
Mind
Smoke
Temperance
Three
Cardinal
Virtues
Neither
Nor
Schoolmaster
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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 in their power to help themselves.
John Burns / Politician
Sympathy
Helping
Helping Hand
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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 characters.
John Burns / Politician
Morning
Character
Clean
Collars
Fog
Manners
Morals
Tongues
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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 the light of high ideals and future objects.
John Burns / Politician
Adapting
Ideals
Light
Past
Reform
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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 by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.
John Burns / Politician
Men
War
Lying
Dishonest
Praises
Presence
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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 moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
John Burns / Politician
Courage
Men
Administrative
Moral
Moral Courage
Numbers
Opposition
Political
Advocate
Beyond
Immediately
Received
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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 get married, you wouldn't die.
John Burns / Politician
Kids
Marriage
Crazy
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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 Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.
John Burns / Politician
Running
Goal
Lines
Practice
Progressive
Socialism
Succeed
Views
Adhere
Cohesive
Compromising
Far
Firmly
Forces
Towards
Held
Parallel
Practical
Tolerant
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