Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
From John Burns
My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.
For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
The Thames is liquid history.
I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
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.
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.
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