5 Gore Vidal Quotes on Law

Gore Vidal quotes on law

7. The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police.

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.

48. As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.

54. We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.