--- title: "12 American Future Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 12 American Future quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best American Future sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcc/donald-freed-45862_destiny_american-future-lies-in-the-east-the-gre_1839750.jpg" --- > [American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-freed/american-future-lies-in-the-east-the-great-free-markets-of-the/) [Donald Freed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-freed/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcc/donald-freed-45862_destiny_american-future-lies-in-the-east-the-gre_1839750.jpg) > [Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amity-shlaes/today-we-care-about-budgets-more-than-anything-our-american-future/) [Amity Shlaes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amity-shlaes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c8/amity-shlaes-9137_ability_today-we-care-about-budgets-more-than-an_2148549.png) > [The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosario-dawson/the-american-future-is-here-and-there-s-great-news-the-future-votes/) [Rosario Dawson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosario-dawson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a89/rosario-dawson-11553_future_the-american-future-is-here-and-there-s_352433.jpg) > [Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-simon/our-future-can-t-be-separated-from-the-fact-that-we-are-all-going-to/) [David Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-simon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fb/david-simon-3189_areas_our-future-can-t-be-separated-from-the-f_2156278.jpg) > [Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-trump/together-we-will-have-one-great-american-future-our-potential-is/) [Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-trump/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/019/donald-trump-18_america_together-we-will-have-one-great-american_575209.jpg) > [Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-trump/together-we-will-have-one-great-american-future-our-potential-is-2/) [Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-trump/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04f/donald-trump-18_america_together-we-will-have-one-great-american_2516499.jpg) > [Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-croly/unless-the-great-majority-of-americans-not-only-have-but-believe-they/) [Herbert Croly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-croly/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21d/herbert-croly-17992_believe_unless-the-great-majority-of-americans-n_915789.jpg) > [“We’re all going to share our American future together—better to do so with open hearts and outstretched hands than closed minds and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hillary-rodham-clinton/we-re-all-going-to-share-our-american-future-together-better-to-do-so/) [Hillary Rodham Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hillary-rodham-clinton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2b/hillary-rodham-clinton-890_closed-mind_we-re-all-going-to-share-our-american-fu_3039526.jpg) > [“I'd like to see North America become a dry, sunny, sandy region inhabited mainly by lizards, buzzards and a modest human population…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/i-d-like-to-see-north-america-become-a-dry-sunny-sandy-region/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/edward-abbey-254_art-dance_i-d-like-to-see-north-america-become-a-d_603591.jpg) > [I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-fox-piven/i-think-that-we-re-at-an-alarming-moment-in-american-political/) [Frances Fox Piven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-fox-piven/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e38/frances-fox-piven-41878_alarming_i-think-that-we-re-at-an-alarming-moment_2773467.jpg) > [I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gibson/i-think-that-our-future-has-lost-that-capital-f-we-used-to-spell-it/) [William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gibson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/377/william-gibson-642_america_i-think-that-our-future-has-lost-that-ca_2312785.png) > [“The disruption of the anticipated American future that was simply to have unrolled out of the solid American past, out of each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-roth/the-disruption-of-the-anticipated-american-future-that-was-simply-to/) [Philip Roth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-roth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cc/philip-roth-681_american-dream_the-disruption-of-the-anticipated-americ_2227370.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-future/#itemlist", "name": "American Future Quotes", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "American future lies in the East. 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