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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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#Events
#I Believe
#Us
#Will
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
#Far
#Lines
#Own
#Practice
#Socialism
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
#Experience
#Future
#I Am
#Light
#Past
I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
- John Burns
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#Course
#Socialism
#Theoretical
Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
- John Burns
#Action
#Better
#Good
#Real
#Solace
Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
- John Burns
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#Effort
#Impossible
#Poverty
#See
I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.
- John Burns
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#Country
#I Am
#Over
#Wave
I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.
- John Burns
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#I Am
#Say
#Son
Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
- John Burns
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#Labour
#Men
#Progress
#Slow
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
#Man
#Men
#Presence
#State
#War
My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.
- John Burns
#Clear
#Costs
#Done
#Duty
#Will
Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.
- John Burns
#Fight
#Four
#Great
#Understand
#Why
The Thames is liquid history.
- John Burns
#History
#Liquid
#Thames
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
#Ability
#Courage
#Men
#Political
#Work
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
- John Burns
#Cleanliness
#Me
#Mind
#Person
#Smoke
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
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#Help
#Man
#Power
#Sympathy
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