“One must be prepared to fight for one's simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements.”

“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”

“One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.”

“Great way to fight a war - be prepared to defend yourself for winning.”

“The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.”

“You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.”