Quotes John Burns

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is ...

Conquering himself, he has learned that he can conquer the w...

Don't hustle old people....

For the moment and for some time great events have been deni...

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over...

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman....

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will con...

I believe the proper business of a Municipality is to do for...

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and w...

I don't want boys to use bad language....

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing....

I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, ...

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed...

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical ...

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with...

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of m...

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope wi...

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persist...

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done....

Remember the match girls who won their strike and formed a u...

Still more important perhaps, is the fact that labour of the...

The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Eur...

The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of th...

The recent I.L.P. conference from which I had expected some ...

The Thames is liquid history....