Status Updates From I Told You So: Gore Vidal T...

“If Lincoln had taken his stand on the high moral ground of abolition of slavery, then he could at least have said, "There is a higher moral good than the Constitution." But he didn't. He took his stand on the Constitution and he fell right through the fabric.”

“Basically you trace the national security state back to Lincoln: the suspension of habeas corpus, universal military service, high military budgets.

Certainly he left us with a centralized "blood and steel" state. And he had absolutely no right to hold the South in the Union. The South had every moral and constitutional right to leave.”

“The average American is an isolationist.”

“I don't think they (the Bushes) are a dynasty we need bother with. I don't see much future for them. It's going to take four or five years to recover from this administration-to get the Constitution back, to get the legal codes back. They've done a lot of damage for a sort of nothing family.”