Famous Quotes | America has been a land of...

America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true.... Yet now ... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality. - Daniel J. Boorstin
Attribution: Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914), U.S. historian. The Image, ch. 6 (1961).

Categories: Dreams And Dreaming, Historian

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