"Remarks in New York City at the Dedication of the East Coast Memorial to the Missing at Sea (203)" (23 May 1963) Quoting an old Breton fishermen's prayer that Admiral Rickover had inscribed on plaques that he gave to newly commissioned submarine captains. Rickover presented President Kennedy with one of these plaques, which sat on his desk in the Oval Office.
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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
This nation has tossed its cap over the wall of space, and we have no choice but to follow it.
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