John F. Kennedy: “This Nation belongs among the first to explore it, and among the first--if not the first--we shall be.”

For my part, I shall withhold from neither the Congress nor the people any fact or report, past, present, or future, which is necessary for an informed judgment of our conduct and hazards.

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

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.

But as an institution, it should have in the future, as it has had in the past since its inception, no stronger or more faithful member than the United States of America.