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FAMOUS AMERICAN DREAM QUOTES

“We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the true face of America; not narrow values that divide us, but the shared values that unite us: family, faith, hard work, opportunity and responsibility for all, so that every child, every adult, every parent, every worker in America has an equal shot at living up to their God-given potential. That is the American dream and the American value.”
-Senator John Kerry

“I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.”
-Kenneth Lay

“Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.”
-Ursula K. LeGuin “Now, I say to you today my friends, 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. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: / we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

“My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of California and stand in Madison Square Garden to speak on behalf of the President of the United States that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream.”
-Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?”
-Dan Castellaneta

“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 Abrahansen

“There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.”
-Archibald MacLeish

“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 not anti-Bush. I am not pro-Iraq. I am pro-peace. I have written a song and created a video which expresses my feelings about our culture and values and illusions of what many people believe is the American dream -- the perfect life.”
-Madonna

All Quotes Provided By: ThinkExist.com