American Dream Quotes

• The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.

  Robert Fulton

  Dream, Reality, Rags

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• The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dream, People, Vision

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• The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Dream, Inspirational Life, Fall

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• The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Freedom, Men

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Dream

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

  Maya Lin

  Life, Positive, Dream

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• The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.

  Ross Perot

  Dream, Simple, Three

  Ross Perot (1992). “United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country”

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• The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Dream, America, Quality

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• Our job as Americans is to restore that basic bargain that says, if you work hard, if you're willing to meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead. You can get ahead. Doesn't matter what you look like, doesn't matter where you come from. Our middle class, when it's growing, when it's thriving, when there are ladders of opportunity for people to do a little bit better each year and then make sure that their kids are doing even better than them, that's the American dream. That's what we got to fight for. That has to be the north star that guides everything we do.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Responsibility, Hard Work

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, People, Expectations

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• And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Today, Faces

  Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 Aug. 1963, in New York Times 29 Aug. 1963, p. 21

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• The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

  Leonard Boswell

  Dream, Jobs, Children

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• The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Misunderstood, Rich

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• For many, the American Dream has become a nightmare.

  Bernie Sanders

  Dream, Nightmare

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Every human being has a dream. I think what's special about the American Dream is that it implies, given everything that's happened with the history of America, that there is the opportunity to make your dream come true. So I think America signifies opportunity.

  Audra McDonald

  Dream, Thinking, Opportunity

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

  James Truslow Adams

  Dream, Opportunity, Land

  James Truslow Adams (2017). “The Epic of America”, p.258, Routledge

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• America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and opportunity to all citizens, no matter how humble their background, so they could climb higher, help build the American dream, and leave a better life for those who follow.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Mean, Humble

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Sadly, the American dream is dead.

  Donald Trump

  Dream

  Presidential Bid Announcement, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2015.

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• Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it...and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are, or where we're from, or what we look like, or who we love.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Country, Opportunity

  Michelle Obama's Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Inspiring, Dream, Children

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• I have been swamped all my life with the idea of the unlimited potential and resources of the American Dream. Not only is this untrue, but it's an injustice to those people who don't have access to this utopia.

  Rick Alverson

  Dream, People, Injustice

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.

  Lee Iacocca

  Dream, Nice, Prosperous Future

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• I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.

  Jay-Z

  Dream, Fighting, People

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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