All John Burns Quotes
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
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For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
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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
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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
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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
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Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
John Burns
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I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.
John Burns
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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
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The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.
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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.
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Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
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I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.
John Burns
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