John F. Kennedy: “This is not a partisan program concentrating on our weaknesses--it is, I hope, a national program to realize our…”

I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity.

Our decision could well affect the unity of the West, the course of the Cold War, and the economic growth of our Nation for a generation to come.

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.

No policeman is universally popular--particularly when he uses his stick to restore law and order on his beat.