Of Plymouth Plantation American Dream Quotes

Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? ~ P. J. O'Rourke

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

Everybody has dreams. You are living the American dream, what's wrong with pushing to secure it for everyone? ~ Bob Ross

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us. ~ Malcolm X

He was going to get the American Dream that even Americans dream about. ~ Nicola Yoon

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us. ~ Malcolm X

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. ~ Max Beerbohm

Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream. ~ Howard Schultz

Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony. ~ Andrei Gromyko

There is much talk about the American Dream. I recall when the American Dream meant the opportunity to pursue your own goals, your own way. The politicians have perverted the dream to mean new homes and cars and a riskfree world. What happened to the real American Dream? ~ William B. Abernathy

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream. ~ Blanche Lincoln

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations. ~ Kit Bond

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare. ~ Bernie Sanders

Inspiration.
five minutes in the back of a greyhound bus;
the world passing by.
a gateway to freedom.
the american dream.
from the american dream ~ K.R. Albers

I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice to The American Dream because the American Dream is worth striving for. And it's not easy. ~ James Gray

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam. ~ James Altucher

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology. ~ William J. Clinton

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed. ~ Michael Bloomberg

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge. ~ Deval Patrick

I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem. ~ Aaron Eckhart

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die. ~ Rand Paul

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont. ~ Clarence Darrow

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living. ~ David Abrahamsen

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. ~ Harvey Milk

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

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream. ~ Michelle Obama

A plantation was a plantation; one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality. ~ Colson Whitehead

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

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.

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare. ~ Malcolm X

Still humping the American Dream ~ Hunter S. Thompson

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure. ~ Theodore White

We must redefine the American Dream before we can rebuild the infrastructure on which it is based. ~ Paolo Soleri

Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search. ~ William McKeen

[Willis is] asking to be treated like an American. A real American. Because, honestly, when you think American, what color do you see? White? Black? We've been here two hundred years. Why doesn't this face register as American? ~ Charles Yu

The American Dream is a constant reminder that America's true nature and distinctive grandeur is in promising the common man, thr man on the make, a better chance to succeed here than common men enjoy anywhere else on earth.
Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 269 ~ Calvin C. Jillson

The American Dream is about freedom. ~ Rick Mears

Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream. ~ Ted Cruz

The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money. ~ Penelope Trunk

No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young. ~ Edgar Friedenberg

I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy. ~ Frank McCourt

The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance. ~ J. C. Watts

The American dream is under attack because our government has been hijacked by the Liberals in Washington DC. ~ Herman Cain

In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream. ~ Bruce Springsteen

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here. ~ Wendell Phillips

If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark. ~ Richard G. Wilkinson

Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America. ~ Mark Kennedy

Las Vegas and the American Dream: two ideas intertwined like crossed fingers on a bloated corpse. ~ Jonathan Heatt

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

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

You have the American dream! The dream is to be born in a gutter and grow up, and then get all the money in the world and stick it in your ears and go THBBBBBT. ~ Eddie Izzard

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability. ~ David Platt

Let's see what's going on over in Iraq. A Burger King has opened up and prostitutes are back on the street of Baghdad after 20 years. Fast food and hookers - they are truly living the American Dream. ~ David Letterman

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well. ~ Gene Simmons

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity. ~ Lenny Wilkens

The twisted inversion that many children of immigrants know is that, at some point, your parents become your children, and your own personal American dream becomes making sure they age and die with dignity in a country that has never wanted them. ~ Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The phrase, "American Dream", a lifestyle approach that doesn't require God's power, just ours, was coined in 1931 by James T. Adams. ~ Gary Patton

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. ~ Cristina Saralegui

The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation. ~ Charles B. Rangel

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. ~ Camille Paglia

I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream. ~ Hugh Hefner

Another Clinton presidency would be a death blow to the American Dream. ~ Marco Rubio

You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these things. ~ Sarah Lacy

We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream. ~ Will.i.am

The American dream is what has kept Americans from rebelling against corporate corruption.Now that 2/3 of us know it's dead, expect anything. ~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream. ~ Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home. ~ William J. Clinton

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

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering. ~ Yakov Smirnoff

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream. ~ James Sinegal

I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet. ~ Hubert Selby, Jr.

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. ~ Douglas MacArthur

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done. ~ Whoopi Goldberg

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither. ~ William J. Clinton

I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable. ~ Eddie Izzard

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction. ~ Marco Rubio

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them. ~ Charles B. Rangel

If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once. ~ Charles E. Merrill

The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I run for president because I believe that we can't just save the American dream; we can expand it to reach more people and change more lives than ever before. ~ Marco Rubio

Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business. ~ William S. Burroughs

In Chicago and across the country, whites looking to achieve the American dream could rely on a legitimate credit system backed by the government. Blacks were herded into the sights of unscrupulous lenders who took them for money and for sport. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country. ~ Rafael Cruz

With all her heart, Mom believed in opportunity for everyone and privilege for no one. She put her children first, and her faith and trust in the American dream. ~ Ralph Webster

The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses. ~ Brian Chesky

Melania Trump wanted two things: a sugar daddy and to be an American citizen. She got, instead, the worse version of the American dream. ~ A.K. Kuykendall

Only if government fulfilled its responsibility by fostering a robust economy was it ressonable to hold individuals responsible for working hard and striving to do their best.
Pursuing the American Dream, 8, 246 ~ Calvin C. Jillson

The American Dream is ownership ... a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business ~ Mario Batali

I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream. ~ Rick Perry

Rand Paul is officially running for president. He even revealed his campaign slogan, which is 'Defeat the Washington machine. Unleash the American dream.' It's hard to tell if he's running for president or doing an infomercial for Bowflex. ~ Jimmy Fallon

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

On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window. ~ Larry Correia

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father. ~ Barry Sanders

We believe in the American Dream, not in the socialist nightmare. ~ Donald J. Trump

In the wake of World War II, most Democrats and liberals claimed that if justice could be done and was not, only evil intent could explain the inaction. Most Republicans and conservatives replied scornfully that the vagabonds were simply calling yet again for an equal share of wealth that others had earned. Most moderates, both Democrats and Republicans, admitted that more justice demanded to be done, but they warned that equality, absent the striving and competition that had always characterized American life, might be an attractive dream, but it was not "the" American Dream.
Pursuing the American Dream, 7, 196 ~ Calvin C. Jillson

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now. ~ Rita Dove

We're the first people of the Western Hemisphere. American history doesn't start with Plymouth Rock; it starts with our ancestors. Others might call us "wetbacks," but we've had 40,000 years to dry out. ~ Mario T. Garcia

Many of the people who are most considered anti-American would love to partake of the American dream: the unspoken slogan of many protesters outside U.S. embassies abroad is really: 'Yankee go home, but take me with you.' ~ Shashi Tharoor

The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else. ~ Nate Parker