Quotes of John Burns - somelinesforyou

“ All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the morning light where time stopped long before you were born ”

- John Burnside

“ Remember the match girls who won their strike and formed a union; take courage from the gas stokers who only a few weeks ago won the eight hour day. ”

- John Burns

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

- John Burns

“ Still more important perhaps, is the fact that labour of the humbler kind has shown its capacity to organise itself; its solidarity; its ability. ”

- John Burns

“ The Thames is liquid history. ”

- John Burns

“ 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

“ Conquering himself, he has learned that he can conquer the world of capital whose generals have been the most ruthless of his oppressors. ”

- John Burns

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

- John Burns

“ You can't just buy a piece of junk and rent it out. What investors have to realize is that students are selective and sophisticated, and their parents are sophisticated. ”

- John Burns

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

- John Burns

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

- John Burns

“ Conquering himself, he has learned that he can conquer the world of capital whose generals have been the most ruthless of his oppressors. ”

- John Burns

“ Conquering himself, he has learned that he can conquer the world of capital whose generals have been the most ruthless of his oppressors. ”

- John Burns

“ 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

“ I have talked to them at length about it in my office. ”

- John Burns

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

- John Burns

“ The recent I.L.P. conference from which I had expected some change in methods and tactics has confirmed my previous views of its leaders. ”

- John Burns

“ The recent I.L.P. conference from which I had expected some change in methods and tactics has confirmed my previous views of its leaders. ”

- John Burns

“ This farm is a New England gem. But I think we can bring in more curb appeal. ”

- John Burns

“ This farm is a New England gem. But I think we can bring in more curb appeal. ”

- John Burns

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

- John Burns

“ I have talked to them at length about it in my office. ”

- John Burns

“ The Thames is liquid history. ”

- John Burns

“ 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

“ The Thames is liquid history. ”

- John Burns

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

- John Burns

“ 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

“ I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come. ”

- John Burns

“ The recent I.L.P. conference from which I had expected some change in methods and tactics has confirmed my previous views of its leaders. ”

- John Burns

“ The Thames is liquid history. ”

- John Burns
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