“The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.”

oh, that it were so

Like many of the soundbites spoken by JFK (or written for him), it sounds great and means nothing in the real world.

As long as there are fundamentalists of any creed attempting to force their dogma on everyone else, liberty will be treated as an obstacle to overcome.