John F. Kennedy: “Our aim is not simply to be first on the moon, any more than Charles Lindbergh's real aim was to be the first to Paris.”

I shall neither shift the burden of executive decisions to the Congress, nor avoid responsibility for the outcome of those decisions.

And, while the occasion does not call for another recital of our blessings and assets, we do have no greater asset than the willingness of a free and determined people, through its elected officials, to face all problems frankly and meet…

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than by what we preach abroad.

The future of any country which is dependent upon the will and wisdom of its citizens is damaged, and irreparably damaged, whenever any of its children is not educated to the full extent of his talent, from grade school through graduate…