Gore Vidal Quotes
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.
Gore Vidal, 1925–2012, Author & Unsuccessful Candidate for Congress, Interview, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio National, November 2001
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Opposing electronic town meetings and referendums:
As a member of the electoral college, he refused to vote for Richard M. Nixon who had won the North Carolina vote. Extremist fundamentalists often oppose democracy in favor of republicanism. A major distinction for them is in the republic, there is not direct
Commenting on the concept of democracy and it's lack of Biblical justification:
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, patrician manner, and polished style of writing. Vidal was openly bisexual and his novels often dealt with LGBT characters, which was unusual at the time. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He twice sought office—unsuccessfully—as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the U.S. Senate (for California).
