Politics
In the 1959 General Election he stood as a Liberal Party candidate for Hereford but failed to win.
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“Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices.... Politics has once again become religious.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
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—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.”
—Ben C. Bradlee (b. 1921)