Eisenhower: “Lincoln said this better than anybody else.”

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

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.

I assure you that our obligation to you is deep and lasting.

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.