In my book What Would Our Founding Fathers Say?: How Today’s Leaders Have Lost Their Way, I talk about the importance of integrity that all politicians should have if they’re going to serve the public well. In writing the Constitution, the Founding Fathers believed that each citizen, politician and non-politician alike, be people of integrity. That simply means in order for a country to operate optimally and serve all the people as the Constitution intended them to be served,
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“To thine own self be true,” was a phrase spoken by Polonius in Hamlet. It means ‘do not deceive yourself’. The full quote is:
to thine own self be true,
and it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man
This quote could certainly apply to our own lives and politicians lives as well. But today we’ll confine our discussion to how the quote “ to thine own self be true,” applies to politicians’ lives.
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