List of John Burns Quotes

I Am Not Ashamed To Say That I Am The Son Of A Washerwoman.

I Am Depressed Rather At The Wave Of Brutality Sweeping Over The Country.

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.

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.

I Don't Want To Be Married. I Don't Know - It Sounds Crazy, But In My Mind, It's All Connected. You Get Married, You Have Kids, You Grow Old, Then You Die. Somehow, It Seems To Me, If You Didn't Get Married, You Wouldn't Die.

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.

Judge Men Less By The Labels They Wear Than By Their Persistent Labour For Sure If Slow Progress.

Individual Effort Is Almost Relatively Impossible To Cope With The Big Problem Of Poverty As We See It.

I Don't Want Boys To Use Their Pencils For Improper Writing.

Don't Hustle Old People.

Why Four Great Powers Should Fight Over Serbia No Fellow Can Understand.

I Believe, However, That Impending Events Will Call Us And We Must Respond But Where, With Whom, And How?