Commitment

As long as I am President I will bend every effort to make sure that that day never comes.

We couldn't make any precommitments and we wouldn't sign a blank check to a treaty that we didn't know what was in it, but that we would do what was fair, what was right, and what was just.

We will continue to do it.

We are committed to four basic principles in this hemisphere in the Alliance for Progress.

I think the time has come to start doing the job, and doing it full time.

We can do more, and we are going to do more.

I am not going to be tied down to a promise, because when I make a promise I keep it, if it is humanly possible.

There are certain things that must be done no matter how long it takes.

I am still going to continue this fight with everything I have got.

His answer was, 'Yes, Mr. President, I will do it.'

I think I will stay here and work--not go anywhere.

That is all that I have--that I am able to give you.

To take on a permanent obligation of the nature that I understand is contemplated in the suggestion of President Diaz would be, I think, a little farther than this Government would wish to go.

The boy on becoming a scout binds himself on his honor to do his best, as the oath reads: