I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.
Gore VidalYou can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.
Gore VidalThe ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches forced upon everyone, through supposedly neutral and just laws, their innumerable taboos on sex, alcohol, gambling. We are now indeed a nation of laws, mostly bad and certainly antihuman.
Gore Vidal