443 – “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 are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

–John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United States of America

Quote Number:  879

Source: Kennedy, John F. “Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort.” Speech, Rice Stadium, Rice University, Houston, Texas. September 12, 1962. John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Online Here

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