Ferdinand Mount Quotes

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

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 lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Hey, it’s the American way.

What makes America unique in the world is the idea of the self-directed life.

They talk about the American Dream. I still believe in that. I still believe that this is a great country, where great things can happen, where anybody can become president of the United States. Just that simple statement there defines so much about the whole business of liberty and freedom and the pursuit of happiness.

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

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

I have grown up in the bright light of America.

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

The American Dream is about freedom.

My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

The American dream is about freedom.

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.

America stands for the land of opportunity.

God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

I love the American way of life.

I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

The soul of republican America ... is individual opportunity.... The loss that republican America now confronts is a loss of individual hope and prospect—the suppression of the instinct that ... has made us a nation of individually independent and prosperous people.

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

The United States of America is the greatest gift to mankind.

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