John F. Kennedy

And the moon and the planets are there.

And new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.

And therefore, as we set sail, we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.

It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere...

as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.

Every man, woman, and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness.

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.

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.

He was an adrenaline junkie, and he was the star of the show.

He was an adrenaline junkie, and he was the star of the show.

He was an adrenaline junkie, and he was the star of the show.

He was an adrenaline junkie, and he was the star of the show.

I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression.

I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression.

I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression.

I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression.

I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression.

I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression.