To rise from the national level to the level of mankind, I call that progress. And that’s what’s so admirable. For a man to progress, once he has reached the White House-I wouldn’t have thought it possible.

When, in the fifteenth century, some audacious mariners who had sailed from Europe discovered America, nothing seemed to justify such a venture in the eyes of their contemporaries. Today, however, we can see it has given birth to the twentieth-century United States. Don’t you think the existence of the United States constitutes a valid reason for Columbus’s wild scheme...

But how could one hold this against her when faced with the perfection of her body? Suddenly.

There’s always some further action to take.

The army had little attraction for him, but it afforded him the possibility of taking a great step toward his goal. After all, if the military saw fit to replace the body that he was planning to liberate from the earth's gravity with an explosive charge, this was a mere detail, at any rate so far as the preliminary experiments were concerned. Creative science should be able to take advantage, without remorse, of the substantial sums allocated by destructive folly.

The moon, the serene moon, was creating a conflict of opinion in America almost as violent as the racial problem.

No country in the world can continue to spend what we are sacrificing for the moon without rapidly being reduced to utter ruin.

The man who eventually reached the moon would be traveling in a vessel made of earthly materials.

... the heritage of mankind is not the earth but the entire universe,

You can ask a President to provide for two years ahead, maybe for twenty or even thirty years, but not for two hundred or a thousand!