Molly Ivins 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.

• Los Libertarios, a los que aprecio bastante, presentan a Harry Browne. Los libertarios son, tal y como afirman, coherentes y de principios: creen en la libertad individual. Por muy encomiables que sean, y a pesar de su fiabilidad como aliados en las luchas por las libertades civiles, puede que notes que los Libertarios a veces demuestran que una coherencia tonta es el duende de las mentes pequeñas, y que hay una diferencia entre lógica y sabiduría.

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Believe, Struggle

  Fort Worth Star-Telegram, September 7, 1996.

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