Eisenhower: “I am tempted to talk for just a moment about the most important crop of all in this country: yourselves.”

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.

I feel now it would be futile for me to attempt anything else in the way of words.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Our unity as a nation is sustained by free communication of thought and by easy transportation of people and goods.