Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project.

As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.

The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, ''You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.'' I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.