Author: John Burns

Quotes

The Thames is liquid history.

The Thames is liquid history.

- John Burns

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

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

- 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.

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

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.

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

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

- John Burns

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

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

- John Burns

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 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.

- John Burns

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