American life Quote by Louis Kronenberger

True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way,…

— Maurice Saatchi

As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's…

— David Shi

Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.

— Rick Alverson

“...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the…

— Calvin Coolidge

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have…

— Barack Obama

The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable…

— Lydia Lunch

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect…

— Herbert Croly

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

— James A. Baldwin

America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that…

— Karen Russell

“People believe that through the American way of life they can work together to encourage wider ownership of economic activities. In this way, they…

— Anonymous

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

— Joe Biden

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently…

— Aristotle