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.

There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.

Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.