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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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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. – Walt Whitman

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We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal. – Samuel Hopkins Adams

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I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave – and nothing but laughter to console them with. – John Irving

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It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy. – Alfred E. Smith

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