"A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House." — Adlai Stevenson II

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

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.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.