3 Gore Vidal Quotes on Democracy

Gore Vidal quotes on democracy

24. Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

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

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.