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  • Sadly, the American dream is dead.

    Presidential Bid Announcement, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2015.
  • Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

    Dream   Usa   California  
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1984). “European Poems & Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries”, p.118, New Directions Publishing
  • The American Dream is about freedom.

  • To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.

  • 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.

  • The American dream only makes sense if you're sleeping.

    Song: Obama Nation 2, Album: Soundtrack To Struggle
  • If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

    Education   Freedom   War  
    Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816
  • Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.

    Dream   Heart   Giving  
    Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.188, Fordham Univ Press
  • Theres no doubt about it: Hillary is the best person to be our 45th president. Hillary has always been a tireless advocate for working families - shes never ceased to make sure everybody has a fair shot at achieving the American Dream.

    Dream   Doubt   President  
  • For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God

    United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”
  • What, after all, is the narrative of the American Dream? It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

    "How the Mitt Romney video killed the American Dream" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.
  • Mary Kay was the wholesome personification of the American dream. For women everywhere, she brought the impossible dream to life by making it a reality. She was a very wise lady. She was a people person. She was very sensitive to the importance of recognizing people.

    Wise   Dream   Reality  
  • Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

  • Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish grandmother who came across the plains, hacked down the trees, and took the Spanish words she encountered and made them hers. Now her great-great-grandchildren sit terrified, wondering what to do with all these Mexicans. The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.

    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • We’re not so free that we don’t have to listen to rules, and laws, and regulations. Those are important. But the spirit, the freedom of the spirit, that’s what I think of American Dream, that we are free here to do what we want to do, what we set out to do.

    "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.
  • As Realtors, you live and breathe the American dream.

    Dream   Usa   Breathe  
  • What the American Dream means to me is the fact that - what founded this country - when I think about those posters that were put up in Europe, which said, "Come to America and you'll have golden sidewalks. The land will be yours." There was something so inspirational about the fact that these immigrants from all over the world felt that here was a place of freedom, a place of opportunity.

    Country   Dream   Mean  
    Source: www.achievement.org
  • I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

  • I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.

    Dream   Looks   Action  
  • I think that's still what the American Dream means: that with perseverance, with hard work, you can become something, that the classes won't prevent you from becoming, that there's a movement up that ladder with hard work.

    Source: www.achievement.org
  • I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this is the end in and of itself - then you've been suckered in. Because those are the consolation prizes, if you're not careful, for selling yourself out, or letting the best of yourself slip away.

    Dream   Believe   Fall  
  • I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

    Dream   Real   Writing  
  • The American dream itself is declining.

    Source: www.nydailynews.com
  • If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

    Music   Dream   Teacher  
  • It's like a kind of Barbie American dream. I have that childlike quality so a lot of little girls especially [like me]. I've always been a kid at heart. I think I always will be.

    Girl   Dream   Heart  
  • There is no Croatian dream. There is no European Union dream. There is no Chinese communist dream, except maybe to get out. But there is and always has been an American dream. And the dream is possible. The dream can become real.

    Dream   Real   Chinese  
    Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Face your reality. You, black or white, are not innocent anymore. Either you have the courage to face it or you will go down together with the whole idea of the American Dream.

    Dream   Reality   Ideas  
    Source: www.theskanner.com
  • Marketers keep inventing desires, necessities for you and for me. I need this. I need that. I need. I need. It's the need of a smoking fit. If you don't smoke that cigarette now, you'll die - when in reality you die because you succumb to the rage and rattle of the needy greed that keeps you busy needing more and more things. Is this the American Dream - the greedy need?

    Dream   Reality   Greed  
    "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.
  • The American Dream means being part of a society that allows you to be or do whatever you want, and to have a sense that your individual optimism and hard work will be rewarded. It exists outside of the U.S. as well as inside. People continue to come here because they want to improve their lives, they want to be able to support themselves and they want to live in freedom. A lot of people who criticize this country still send their children here to study.

  • I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for 50 years. He believed he passed it down to my dad, who passed it down to me, that if he did what he was supposed to do, he'd have a good life and his kids would have an even better life. That is the American dream. That is what we believe in, that's what we've got to keep going generation after generation.

    Dream   Dad   Good Life  
    Source: time.com
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