American Moonshot Quotes

“Eisenhower started his presidency on this same note, with a plea to avoid what he called the “burden of arms. . . . Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
― Douglas Brinkley, American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

“When you make a deal with the devil, you’re tainted forever by his crimes.”
― Douglas Brinkley, American Moonshot

“Hitler’s commitment to the V-2 advanced the pursuit of a moonshot by perhaps decades. Though Hitler had no expressed interest in reaching the moon, the uncomfortable fact is that the darkest shafts and foulest backwater of human savagery helped bring this loftiest of human dreams to reality.”
― Douglas Brinkley, American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race