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I began my political responsibility as an ultra-conservative. I wanted the Kaiser to come back; and now I am a revolutionary. I really mean that. If I live to be a hundred I shall maybe be an anarchist, for an anarchist wants to do without all government.

 - Martin Niemöller

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.

 - Edward Abbey

It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

 - Hannah Arendt