Gore Vidal Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with a national religion like that of England, from whom we had just separated. It is curious how little understood this amendment is-yes, everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does not have the right to impose his beliefs on others who do not happen to share in his superstitions and taboos.

  Gore Vidal

  Sky, Religion, Doe

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

  Gore Vidal

  War, Machines, Constitution

  "America First? America Last? America at Last?". Lowell Lecture, Harvard University, April 20, 1992.

• The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, America, Broken

• Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.

  Gore Vidal

  Constitution, Worship

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