Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 62 |
| AUTHOR: | Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900–65) |
| QUOTATION: | Our nation stands at a fork in the political road. In one direction lies a land of slander and scare; the land of sly innuendo, the poison pen, the anonymous phone call and hustling, pushing, shoving; the land of smash and grab and anything to win. This is Nixonland. But I say to you that it is not America. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | These words were written in 1956 during Stevenson’s second presidential campaign. |
| SUBJECTS: | America |