John F. Kennedy

But I tell you the New Frontier is here, whether we seek it or not. Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquererd pockets of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus.

It would be easy to shrink back from that frontier, to look to the safe mediocrity of the past, to be lulled by good intentions and high rhetoric...
Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches

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