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John Burns

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  • “I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.” -John Burns

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  • “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

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  • “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.” -John Burns

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