JB

John Burns

68quotes

Quotes by John Burns

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I don’t want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.
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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.
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Don’t hustle old people.
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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.
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I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
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Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
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I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.
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Don't hustle old people.
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Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.
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My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.
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