Adlai Stevenson may refer to:
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.