How does JFK use language to persuade his audience that he is right? Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, and the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of unclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it-we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instructions of knowledge and understanding. Full answer