Eisenhower: “Now, many individuals through the ages have attempted, in a sentence, to define exactly what is an institution of…”

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.

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

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.

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.