America Quote by Paula Gunn Allen

If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to…

— Edward Abbey

The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural…

— Jane Smiley

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

— Paul Goodman

The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream…

— James Truslow Adams

Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting.…

— Jill Lepore

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

— John D. Rockefeller

Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish…

— Richard Rodriguez

To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have…

— Amartya Sen

More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants. In each generation, they…

— William J. Clinton

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

— Charles A. Reich