Wednesday's Quote of the Day

Here's an interesting part of a speech delivered by the Transcendentalist minister Theodore Parker (1810-1860) way back in 1848-- one wouldn't need to change much to make it appear a commentary on recent elections:

"Politics are national morals, the morals of Thomas
and Jeremiah, multiplied by millions. But it is not
decided yet that honesty is the best policy for a
politician; it is thought that the best policy is
honesty, at least as near it as the times will allow.
Many politicians seem undecided how to turn, and
so sit on the fence between honesty and dishonesty.
Mr. Facing-both-ways is a popular politician in
America just now, sitting on the fence between
honesty and dishonesty, and, like the blank leaf
between the New and the Old Testaments,
belonging to neither dispensation"