John Burns

I have to be accurate; I don't have to be impartial ↗

— John Burns

#balkans #current-events #iraq #journalism #iraq

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

— John Burns

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Don't hustle old people. ↗

— John Burns

#old #old people #people

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

— John Burns

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I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country. ↗

— John Burns

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I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman. ↗

— John Burns

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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. ↗

— John Burns

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

— John Burns

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

— John Burns

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I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. ↗

— John Burns

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