The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an unacceptable strategic threat to the United States. . . . This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base - by the presence of these large, long-range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass-destruction - constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas. . . .

... 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.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.