Pat Buchanan Quotes

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

Reality in the end proves unmanageable. It breaks in upon man’s conceptions, changes them, and finally destroys them.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

Great power is setting a goal, working hard for it, and achieving it in exactly the way you expected with no consequences and no remainders after the long division is done. But does that happen to anyone? The unexpected always hitches a ride along with everything you planned.

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.

Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.

To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.

Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

With rebellion, awareness is born

What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution was a correct strategy.

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

The revolution starts now.

Progress is the mother of problems.

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.