The best Quotes about the American Dream

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.

Richard Rodriguez

The American dream was more like a nightmare.

Vito Scaletta in Mafia - II

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

Florence King

The American dream belongs to all of us.

Kamala Harris

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

Condoleezza Rice

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Rules

The American dream is about freedom.

Nancy Pelosi

Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.

Nancy Pelosi

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

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.

Bernie Sanders

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Bruce Springsteen

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If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

Nelson Mandela

USA

This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 24 Episode 5

USA Food

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 in Declaration of Independence

Human Rights USA Famous Quotes Independence Day

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Martin Luther King

Tolerance USA Independence Day

Not only are you wrong... but you are belligerently sticking to your guns and insulting me in the process. Robin Scherbatsky, you are an American.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 5 Episode 5

Robin Scherbatsky USA

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Francis Scott Key - Star-Spangled Banner

USA Independence Day

Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

Neil Postman

USA

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

Wil Wheaton

USA

If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.

Nelson Mandela - 2002, on the US, preparing to invade Iraq

USA 2002

It is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

Benjamin Franklin - May 1777

USA Independence Day

Let every nation know... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy - Inaugural Address

USA

If you don't like your job, you don't strike: you just go in every day and do it really half a-sed. That's the American way.

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons

USA

Laughter is America's most important export.

Walt Disney

Laughing & Smile USA

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

Martin Luther King

Freedom USA

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

George Washington - 27. August 1776 - before the Battle of Long Island

USA Independence Day

We commend Taiwan for being one of the freest societies in the world.

Nancy Pelosi - August 2022

2022 Taiwan

Our distinguished Congressional delegation came to Poland to send an unmistakable message to the world: that America stands firmly with our NATO allies in our support for Ukraine.

Nancy Pelosi - May 2022

We're able to say that we have held the House.

Nancy Pelosi - during US Election Night 2020

Christians are like a thirteen year old kid who still believes in Santa.

Jim Jefferies

Christianity Santa Claus

If you hate gay marriage, then don't marry a gay person.

Jim Jefferies

Homosexuality & LGBTQ+

My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.

Shahid Khan

The bedrock of this country are immigration and, really, a great separation between church and state.

Shahid Khan

USA Refugees & Immigrants

But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.

Richard Rodriguez - Hunger of Memory

Forgetting

Education is that human process of feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had.

Richard Rodriguez

Education

The guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the guy who wants too little from life might not get anything at all.

Tommy Angelo in Mafia

Ambition Risk Wise Sayings

Family isn't who you're born with, it's who you die for.

Lincoln Clay in Mafia - III

Family

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Florence King

Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people don't cross.

Florence King

It understandably creates a great sense of fear. There are many things that we knew would happen... I'm not here to say "I told you so".

Kamala Harris - April 2025

2025

Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people. Clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that.

Kamala Harris - September 2024

Donald Trump US Elections

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.

Condoleezza Rice

Yesterday Today

The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.

Condoleezza Rice

Women's Rights

President Trump is a failed leader. He will go down in history as the worst president ever.

Arnold Schwarzenegger - January 2021

Donald Trump

Marihuana? That's not a drug, it's a plant.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Marijuana & Weed

Can't change the world by following all the rules.

Kiriko in Overwatch

Rules

Hermione: "I mean, it's sort of exciting isn't it? Breaking the rules."
Ron: "Who are you and what have you done with Hermione Granger?"

Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Hermione Granger Rules

I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movement is a sentiment in America that government is broken - both parties are to blame - and if we don't do something soon, this exceptional country will be lost, and it will become just like everybody else.

Marco Rubio

The best Quotes about the American Dream

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