HONESTY IN POLITICS
Sir, —A perfectly honest man would never be elected to a public position. If a candidate, when asked his religion, said: “I have no religious profession; I don’t believe the Creator of the Universe ever revealed anything to man;” or if he had said, “No individual or group of individuals should own land or gold or coal or any natural product of the earth,” he would lose his deposit. He would have had to say, “I can’t find time to go to church, but my wife is a member and I subscribe liberally to all.’’ Making a political speech is not expressing one’s thoughts, but hiding them.—Yours, etc., HONESTY. July 29, 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27415, 30 July 1954, Page 7
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