We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth - but neither shall we shrink from that risk any time it must be faced.

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

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.

The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working mothers has children under 3. Two out of 5 have children of school age. Among the remainder, about 50 percent have husbands who earn less than $5,000 a year-many of them much less. I believe they bear the heaviest burden of any group in our Nation. Where the mother is the sole support of the family, she often must face the hard choice of either accepting public assistance or taking a position at a pay rate which averages less than two-thirds of the pay rate for men.

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.