3 Gore Vidal Quotes on Constitution

Gore Vidal quotes on constitution

41. Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

43. We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns.

52. We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic. The founding fathers hated two things, one was monarchy and the other was democracy, they gave us a constitution that saw to it we will have neither. I don't know how wise they were.