“Friends, countrymen, lend me your ears! Too long have we suffered under the blows of indifferent fate. I meet you today to propose a War on Lightning, against the axis of electrons—a strike on the Mount (Olympus).
Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, But why, some say, the Mount? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 88 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the Mount. We choose to go to the Mount 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.
Ok. Now I want a President to declare the “War Against Lightning.”
“Friends, countrymen, lend me your ears! Too long have we suffered under the blows of indifferent fate. I meet you today to propose a War on Lightning, against the axis of electrons—a strike on the Mount (Olympus).
Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, But why, some say, the Mount? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 88 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the Mount. We choose to go to the Mount 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.
Good night, and gods bless America.”
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And with the ominous resolution spoken, a deep thunder was heard, as if echoing the importance of what had just been said,
Then everyone dived for cover...