It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That is a wonderful challenge for us as a people.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish - where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

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