I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
John BurnsI 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 BurnsI 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.
John BurnsIndividual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
John Burns