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

#characters #clean #collars #come #hands

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

#fallen #hand #help #helping #helping hand

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

— John Burns

#big #big problem #cope #effort #impossible

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

— John Burns

#labels #labour #less #men #persistent

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

— John Burns

#costs #done #duty #will

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

— John Burns

#europe #gentlemen #greatest #serve #under

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

#dishonest #disloyal #greatest #his #kicked

The Thames is liquid history. ↗

— John Burns

#liquid #thames

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand. ↗

— John Burns

#fight #four #great #over #powers

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

— John Burns

#construct #course #ended #hour #i