We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Eisenhower
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was born in Kansas and rose to prominence as a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. Eisenhower served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe, overseeing the successful D-Day invasion and the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.
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January 19, 1961
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.…
— Eisenhower
The Secretary of the Interior shall keep under review the Imports Into District I, Districts II-IV, and District V of residual fuel oil to be used as fuel.
we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Our unity as a nation is sustained by free communication of thought and by easy transportation of people and goods.
I find and declare that adjustments must be made in the imports of crude oil and unfinished oils for overestimates and underestimates of total demand.
We shall eventually have a world in which all men are brothers, and in which the outstretched hand is not that of a tyrant, but the hand of friendship.
For over six decades we have worked together to create and maintain strong democratic institutions.
I feel now it would be futile for me to attempt anything else in the way of words.
The kind of leadership we are talking about is: the people that can understand this crowd.
The day that we don't have to work, that's the day you will have to call the United States second rate.
People must meet and understand other people, and so doing make it ever more difficult for governments, responding to false prides or even worse, personal ambitions, to sustain dictatorships.
These things can be done--your part in bringing them to pass will be measured by the intensity of your dedication.
It makes no difference for what individual or party you vote, as long as you are voting your own honest convictions.
We must not be either patronizing, resentful, or treat them as a stranger or enemy.
There has never been a time when the Polish people and Polish fortunes have been absent from the hearts and minds of the American people.
The human spirit that must be free is the thing that brings 213 nationalities finally into one single nation.
Leadership is not proved by a mere whirling across the public stage in a burst of glib oratory.
He has stood firmly on a platform of truth to confound the delegates of the Soviet Union and its satellites.





