Eisenhower: “I think there should be a choice among men that the public and the parties seem to believe are of the kind...”

For over six decades we have worked together to create and maintain strong democratic institutions.

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

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