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I got the "From the Earth to the Moon" Signature Edition for Christmas from my wife. The series, and other places, have different cuts of Kennedy's "We will go to the moon" speech. Having seen several bits, including the random statement "Why does Rice play Texas?" on those DVDs, I went looking for the full text of the speech.
I found a page a Rice University (where the speech was apparently given) that contains the full text of the speech. Here are the couple of paragraphs with those statements. Happy holidays and happy new year, everyone!
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain. Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. 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, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.