Eisenhower: “Government has tried to work with people, rather than to try to dominate them—rather than to boss them.”

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.

My heart will always be filled with admiration for you.

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

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.