"to the moon" at Rice University Sept 12 ,1962
aka "Why does Rice play Texas?"
...We choose to go to the moon. 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...
However, I think we're going to do it, and
I think that we must pay what needs to be paid. I don't think we ought
to waste any money, but I think we ought to do the job. And this will
be done in the decade of the sixties. It may be done while some of you
are still here at school at this college and university. It will be
done during the term of office of some of the people who sit here on
this platform. But it will be done. And it will be done before the end
of this decade...