Quotes

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.

The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. Technical institutions, such as Rice, will reap the harvest of these gains.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Logic, reasoning

Character, ethics

Emotion

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream

I have a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back

Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt

In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds

When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

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

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward.

the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward — and so will space.

man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.

this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space.

We mean to be a part of it — we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.

Yet the vows of this Nation can only be fulfilled if we in this Nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first. In short, our leadership in science and industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries, to solve them for the good of all men, and to become the world's leading space-faring nation.

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet.

Its hazards are hostile to us all.

Space and related industries are generating new demands in investment and skilled personnel,

Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, 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.