American Dream Quotes - Page 9

• The America of Obama's dreams is not the one of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to which he paid phony lip service at the beginning of his speech. It is an America in which the government, rather than the private sector, creates wealth and leads ignorant, helpless people by the nose from cradle to grave, from preschool to the academy, with the caveat that if they succeed too much, they will make themselves enemies of the state and targets for punitive action. Obama's new American dreams is an American nightmare.

  David Limbaugh

  Dream, America, Government

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• I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.

  Wyclef Jean

  Dream, Thinking, America

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• What happened to the American Dream? It came true! You're lookin' at it

  Edward Blake

  Dream, True You, Happened

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• If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Lonely, Book

  Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

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• The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron -- and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring -- embody the American dream of Eden.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Dream, Blessed, Eden

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Lying, Believe

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• Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Optimism, Mobility

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• Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

  Charles A. Reich

  Dream, Men, Giving

  "The Greening of America". Book by Charles A. Reich, 1970.

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• One of the great threats to our national security is social cohesion. If people no longer believe that you can start out anywhere and end up at the top successfully in America, that the American dream is part of the past, I think that erodes a sense of belief and confidence in our nation.

  Joel Klein

  Dream, Believe, Past

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• We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dream, Thinking, United States

  Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.230, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets and sold gifts to make ends meet. Eventually, through hard work, they opened six gift stores in shopping malls. My parents achieved the American dream; they went from being poor to a home and gave my brother and me an amazing education. I wanted to serve the country that gave so much to my family.

  Ted Lieu

  Dream, Country, Brother

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• We set forth on a journey to bring our vision to our country, to keep the American dream alive for all who are willing to work for it, to make our American community stronger, to keep America the world's strongest force for peace and freedom and prosperity.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Dream, Journey

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1409, Best Books on

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• I hear hate. I hear people who clearly don't have a great understanding of the American dream. That the American dream is based on hard work and dedication, determination, resilience, excitement, mentorship, help and love for each other.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Dream, Determination, Hate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had visited New York at age 12, and I loved the big buildings and the swarms of people. At 23, I decided to try it. I was going to go for six months, and I ended up living there for 18 years before I moved to California, so I am living the American Dream.

  Ari Marcopoulos

  Dream, New York, California

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.

  William A. Henry III

  Dream, Mean, Vision

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• I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Dream, Hard Work, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.

  William McKeen

  Dream, Heart, Found

  "Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson". Book by William McKeen, Chapter 11, Making A Beast Of Himself, July 13, 2009.

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• This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Dream, Country, People

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• Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious sort of spending isn't strictly the province of hip-hop. It's almost like a continuation of the American Dream.

  Simon de Pury

  Dream, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Dream, People, Respect Me

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• The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was about individualism and the opportunity to achieve success without interference from others.

  Robert Ringer

  Dream, Opportunity, Government

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• The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Suicide, Dream, America

  Dinesh D'Souza (2014). “America: Imagine a World without Her”, p.6, Regnery Publishing

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• So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.

  Robin Hayes

  Dream, America, People

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• Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people of the world. It is the Bill of Rights, and only the Bill of Rights, that keeps us from becoming the world's biggest banana republic. The moment we forget that, the American Dream is over.

  Alexander Beresford Hope

  Dream, Country, Rights

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• These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Dream, Home, Reality

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