English - Activist | October 20, 1858 - January 24, 1943
You 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 Burns
MorningMeMoralsHandsYouManners
I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.
WritingWantUsePencils
Don't hustle old people.
PeopleHustleOld PeopleOld
Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.
GreatFightWhyUnderstandOver
My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.
DoneDutyWillClearCosts
The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.
EuropeServeGreatestEngland
For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
GreatTimeMomentMeActionForward
I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?
BelieveWillI BelieveEventsUs
I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.
SonI AmSayAshamedAm
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