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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.

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John Burns
Age: 84 †
Born: 1858
Born: October 20
Died: 1943
Died: January 24
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John Elliot Burns
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