I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
John BurnsYou 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 BurnsI believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?
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 Burns