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John Burns [1858-1943] English
Rank: 109
Activist, Politician


John Elliot Burns was an English trade unionist and politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly associated with London politics. He was a socialist and then a Liberal Member of Parliament and Minister. He was anti-alcohol and a keen sportsman.

Courage, History, Morning, Sympathy



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The Thames is liquid history. History
101
Don't hustle old people.
102
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
103
I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.
104
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. Sympathy
105
I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.
106
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. Courage
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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. Morning
108
Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.
109
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.
110
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.
111
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.
112
Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
113
My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.
114
Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
115
I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?
116
I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
117
Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
118
The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.
119
For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
120
I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.
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