Molly Ivins Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Struggle, America

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.112, Vintage

• The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.

  Molly Ivins

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Rights

  "'Evil Cowards' Threaten Freedom" by Molly Ivins, www.sfgate.com. April 25, 1995.

• The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent - they believe in individual liberty. Commendable as they are, and despite their reliability as allies in civil liberties struggles, you may notice that Libertarians sometimes prove that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, and that there is a difference between logic and wisdom.

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Believe, Struggle

  Fort Worth Star-Telegram, September 7, 1996.

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