The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

White’s aphorism frames the “American dream” not as a completed achievement or a fixed promise, but as an ongoing, open-ended project. By pairing “not over” with “adventure,” he emphasizes contingency, risk, and continual reinvention—suggesting that national identity is made through successive choices, migrations, reforms, and political struggles rather than inherited as a settled condition. The line also carries an implicit rebuttal to declinist narratives: even amid disappointment or crisis, the country’s defining feature is its capacity for new beginnings. In White’s characteristic political-historical register, the phrase reads as both diagnosis and exhortation: America remains dynamic, and citizens are participants, not spectators.