Eisenhower: “We want to turn nuclear science to the production of power, to assist the doctors in their medical research, to…”

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.

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.

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.