"The United States of America has no..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.
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More on Space Exploration
“There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make itsuccessful.”
“When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.”
“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.”
More on Ambition
“All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.”
“Small aim is a crime; have great aim.”
“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”