Quotes from Patrick J. Buchanan

"E pluribus unum" - out of many, one - was the national motto the men of 1776 settled upon. Today, one sees the pluribus; but where is the unum? Pat Buchanan. Suicide of a Superpower

Every nation that rose to world power did so by protecting and nurturing its manufacturing base - from Great Britain under the Acts of Navigation, to the United States from the Civil War to the Roaring Twenties, to Bismarck's Germany before World War I, to postwar Japan, to China today. No nation rose to world power on free trade. From Britain after 1860 to America after 1960, free trade has been the policy of powers that put consumption before production, today before tomorrow.
The historical record is clear. Nations rise on economic nationalism. They descend on free trade. Pat Buchanan. Suicide of a Superpower

Where did we make the wrong turn? How did we lose our way?
How, in a generation, did we reach a point where a majority of our people believe America is headed in the wrong direction, that our children will not know the good life their parents had, that the American Dream may never become reality for scores of millions of our countrymen?
The answer: the failure of our system is rooted in a societal failure.
We are not ruled by the same ideas nor do we possess the same moral character as our parents did. Today, freedom takes a back seat to equality. "One nation, under God, indivisible" has become an antique concept in an age that celebrates diversity and multiculturalism. Our intellectual and cultural elites reject the God our parents believed in and the moral code they lived by. Pat Buchanan. Suicide of a Superpower

Germans have been dying out for forty years and this has been covered up by counting Turks, East Europeans, and Arabs as Germans. Now, not even immigrants from the Muslim lands, Eastern Europe, and the Third World can mask the reality.
Astonishing. Not long after World War II, West Germany boasted the world's second largest economy. Now a united Germany is on schedule to become a retirement center, nursing home, and cemetery for the Germanic peoples, whose origins date back to before the birth of Christ. Pat Buchanan. Suicide of a Superpower

The reason the West is dying is simple: children are no longer so desirable. The child-centered society has been succeeded by the self-centered society. The purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure, not the sacrifices required in the raising of children. Pat Buchanan. Suicide of a Superpower

The Constitution and Bill of Rights are the foundational documents of the republic and the organic documents of American union. And the word "equality" does not appear in either. Nor does the word "democracy." Can these be the ends for which the United States was established if they are not even mentioned in the nation's founding documents? Pat Buchanan. Suicide of a Superpower

Egalitarian extremism of the late twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries is rooted not in the history of this republic but in the ideology of modern man. Pat Buchanan. Suicide of a Superpower

Has the ethnic diversity of Africa—Kikuyu, Luo, and Masai in Kenya; Mashona and Matabele in Zimbabwe; Zulu, Xhosa, Bantu in South Africa; Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda and Burundi; Yoruba and Ibo in Nigeria—proven a blessing for those countries? Or has diversity been the primary cause of the massacre of millions? Would not these peoples have all been happier, had their national boundaries been drawn up along tribal lines? Pat Buchanan. Suicide of a Superpower

Democracy notwithstanding, wrote Wells, "The natural political map of the world insists upon itself. It heaves and frets beneath the artificial political map like some misfitted giant." Wells understood that not parchment, but language, literature, blood, soil, history, and faith make a nation; that a nation is an organic living thing, not some fabricated construct. Pat Buchanan. Suicide of a Superpower

Three million people of Mexican ancestry today call L.A. County home, and half of all its residents-54 percent-speak a language other than English in their homes, up from 45 percent in 1990. When more than half the people of so vast a county do not speak English at home, do not listen to the same radio and TV programs as the rest of us, do not read the same newspapers, magazines, or books, do not share the same heroes, history, or holidays, how can we say we are all still one nation and one people? Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency

With Third World immigrants, the mass conversion to the Republican Party has never happened. The naturalization and registration of 500,000 to 1 million immigrants each year is thus locking up the future for the Democratic Party and throwing away the key. If the GOP does not do something about immigration, immigration will do something about the GOP: Turn it into a retirement home of America's newest minority. Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency

Our corporate elite demands and gets an endless supply of low-wage foreign labor. Our cultural elite, contemptuous of the old America, wishes to see it drowned in wave after wave of immigrants, and tars as racists and nativists those who wish to preserve that country. ... If, by 2050, America is a souk of squabbling nationalities united only by a common lust for consumer goods, the guilty men will be our unpatriotic elites who put money and power ahead of country and culture. Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency

To Theodore Roosevelt, immigration was about America as a nation and a people. To George Bush of the Harvard Business School, immigration is about America as a giant job mart for companies that wish to be liberated from the burdens of loyalty to roam the world and hire foreign workers at the lowest possible wages to de-Americanize the U.S. labor force. This is the real K Street Project. Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency

Economism does not just believe in markets, it worships them. The invisible hand of Adam Smith becomes the hand of God. The commands of the market overrule the claims of citizenship, culture, country. Economic efficiency becomes the highest value. Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency

To the "economite," the true believer in economism, sovereignty, independence, industrial primacy, the values of community and country, must be sacrificed, should the gods of globalism so command. Where Abraham lifted his son on an altar of sacrifice at the command of God, the economites put the nation there. To acolytes of the cult, what's good for GDP is good for America. ... To converts to the Church of GDP" mass immigration means more workers, more consumers, bigger markets, a bigger economy. And because it is good for the GDP, it is good for America. Dissidents and skeptics are Luddite enemies of progress. Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency

We are conducting an experiment rooted neither in common sense nor the American experience, but in an ideology that declares, against all historical evidence, that people of every country, creed, culture, or civilization are equally and easily assimilable into America, and all have an equal right to come here.
Thus the world's finest five-star hotel, the United States of America, becomes the flophouse for the planet. We may call our ancestors racists, as we trumpet our moral superiority. But history may yet mark ours as the generation of fools that threw away the last best hope on earth. Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency

This is where NAFTA was designed to lead us. As too few patriots appreciate, free trade--with its lure of a cornucopia of consumer goods at the cheapest possible price--is the Pied Piper to world government. For any continental common market must call into existence institutions with the power to enforce its rules. These evolve into regimes. So history teaches.
Hamilton's free trade zone, which tied together thirteen independent states in a common market, ensured the rise of a central government that displaced the states and robbed them of their independence. State sovereignty has diminished every decade since 1789. When South Carolina threatened to break free of the Union over northern protectionism and the Tariff of Abomination, Jackson called it sedition and threatened to hang the leaders of his native state-foremost among whom was his own vice president, John Calhoun. When the South seceded in 1860-61, Abraham Lincoln decided they were no longer free to go.
Bismarck's customs union, the Zollverein, gradually crushed the old Germany of free cities, principalities, duchies, and kingdoms, producing the Prussian-dominated Second Reich. Jean Monnet's European Coal and Steel Community evolved into the European Economic Community, then into the European Community and today's European Union, which is evolving into the New Europe of the faceless bureaucrats of Brussels. Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency

In the early postcolonial period after 1945, Third World regimes looked on multinational companies as agents of a new imperialism, and on their young who departed for the West as defectors. Third World rulers behave more sagely today. They compete for Western investment. They provide incentives for Western companies to transfer factories and technology and to train local workers. The near-term goal is to have the First World modernize Third World industries to compete in Western markets. The long-term goal is to make the Third World the producers upon whom their former masters depend for the necessities of national life. Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency

To traditional conservatives, this "creedal nation" exists in the minds of men of words. It is an intellectual construct, to which men can render neither love nor loyalty. For two centuries, men have died for America. Who would lay down his life for the UN, the EU, or a "North American Union"? When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, college students stood beside sharecroppers' sons to enlist. These men were not volunteering to defend abstract ideas. For democracy was not attacked. Equality was not attacked. America was attacked. Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency

Should America lose her ethnic-cultural core and become a nation of nations, America will not survive. For nowhere on this earth can one find a multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual nation that is not at risk. Democracy is not enough. Equality is not enough. Free markets are not enough--to hold a people together. Without patriotism, a love of country and countrymen not for what they believe or profess but for who they are, "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency

The scheme to redefine America's identity as other than what America has always been, is an historic fraud, concocted by ideologues to divert the nation away from a traditional foreign policy into crusades to remake the world in a democratist mould. They have forged America's birth certificate--to claim custody of the child. Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency

Whether America is a traditional nation or an ideological nation is critical to the immigration debate. For if America is a "propositional nation," a creedal nation, then who comes to America and whence they come does not matter. Indeed, the more who come and assent to the American "proposition," the stronger and better nation we become. Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency

Language, faith, culture, and history--and, yes, birth, blood, and soil--produce a people, not an ideology. After the ideologies and creeds that seized Germany, Italy, and Russia by the throat in the twentieth century--Nazism, Fascism, Communism--were all expunged, Germans remained German, Italians remained Italian, and Russians remained Russian. After three decades of Maoist madness, the Chinese remain Chinese. Had America succumbed to dictatorship in the Cold War, we would still be Americans, recognizable by far more than the political beliefs we profess. Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency

The true and hidden agenda of the openborders lobby is exactly that: "To make over the face of America." To realize it, they will call their opponents names that more aptly apply to themselves. Pat Buchanan. State of Emergency