That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

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  Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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  To make war a mere contest of machines without men and without loss of life.

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  When all darkness shall be dissipated by the light of science, when all nations shall be merged into one, and patriotism shall be identical with religion, when there shall be one language, one country, one end, then the dream will have become reality.

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  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.

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  Out of constables we have made grandees, idiots have shared out the honours, thieves are making rich men for us, dark souls have called themselves patriots.

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  Every generation, no doubt, believes itself called to remake the world. Mine knows that it will not remake it.

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