America Quote by Josh Stallings

“Our society’s drive for the “Great American Dream” has become a nightmare! It keeps many potential moral supporters lulled in a stupor of spiritual…

— Neal Pirolo

“In 1846, George Donner and his brother Jacob, Illinois farmers, set out for the promise of California in covered wagons with several families, including…

— Dan Gutman

“And always America is the place of the deathless and enraptured moments, the eye that looked, the mouth that smiled and vanished, and the…

— Thomas Wolfe

“I've never felt that the American Dream was owed to me. I never felt that I was entitled to this Dream. This is why…

— John-Talmage Mathis

“There was always a big party on the night before anyone left for the States. They called it an American wake, because the whole…

— Cole Moreton

“Using a wide variety of media, we could demonstrate for our fellow Americans their anxieties, desires, insufficiencies, and frustrations--and how to assuage them all.…

— Joshua Ferris

“We are about to live the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.”

— John Green

“The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house,…

— Tod Wodicka

“All our dreams and hopes become as naught, and evil men are allowed to hang their lanterns on our tombstones. What greater folly is…

— James Lee Burke

“The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes ... but in the everyday folds who live and die unknown, yet leave their…

— Alan Lomax

“And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country” that they summoned…

— Robert A. Caro

“To me the way they were used, particularly the way their idealism and loyalty were exploited by leaders who themselves had lost faith in…

— Mark Bowden