Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

[The United States is] a magnificent country still experimenting with its own existence.

America is a country with so much opportunity. I'm living the blessings of what this country offers.

I have grown up in the bright light of America.

America is not just a country, it's an idea.

We don't need a new idea; the idea is called America, and it still works.

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

America is another name for opportunity.

For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.

The United States of America was the first place on earth where average people had the opportunity to become the greatest among all people. It was the first time in human history where people were allowed to pursue the best of their abilities to whatever desire they wanted, because it was a nation founded under the concept of human beings being born free.

America, to me, is freedom.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

The American dream is about freedom.

America stands for the land of opportunity.

When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

America is not a place. America is an idea.

This country has been around for over 200 years because we live by hope and vision.

America Was Promises

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

America remains the great idea that inspires the world.

It has given me an intense appreciation for this country and the wonders and freedoms that are associated with it.

America was based on a big promise—a great big one: the Declaration of Independence. When you have to live with that in the house, that’s quite a problem—particularly when you’ve got to make money and get ahead, open world markets, do all the things you have to, raise your children, and so forth. America is stuck with its self-definition put on paper in 1776, and that was just like putting a burr under the metaphysical saddle of America—you see, that saddle’s going to jump now and then and it pricks.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

Go to the United States and see what they are doing with the American Dream..

The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.

I believe in the ideals of America, in liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.