John Burns Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?”

“Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.”

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

“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.”

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

“Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.”

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

“The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.”

“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.”

“For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.”