John F. Kennedy
speaker
100 appearances
26 recordings
13 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 25 May
John F. Kennedy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other thing, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
One of the things that makes life more difficult for us is that we expect it to be easy.
Growth shouldn't be easy.
Stop looking for shortcuts.
Stop looking to make things a breeze.
This union deserves the hardiest commendation.
I hope others will follow your example.
And I come here today and ask you to continue to work.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
Because that goal...
will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win.
There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
I'm not too...
Conceal responsibility because I'm the responsible officer of the government.
I've said as much as I feel can be usefully said by me in regard to the events of the past few days.
Don't point at that.
Many years ago, the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it.
He said because it is there.
Well, space is there.
And we're going to climb it.
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