WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:53:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg space race – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Kennedy, John F. -- Speech, San Antonio, TX (21 Nov 1963) https://wist.info/kennedy-john/25613/ https://wist.info/kennedy-john/25613/#respond Tue, 03 Jun 2014 04:22:32 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=25613 Frank O’Connor, the Irish writer, tells in one of his books how, as a boy, he and his friends would make their way across the countryside, and when they came to an orchard wall that seemed too high and too doubtful to try and too difficult to permit their voyage to continue, they took off their hats and tossed them over the wall — and then they had no choice but to follow them. This Nation has tossed its cap over the wall of space, and we have no choice but to follow it.


John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) American politician, author, journalist, US President (1961–63)
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