Eisenhower: “One of the vital facts of this century is that dozens of new nations have come into being.”

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.

Our unity as a nation is sustained by free communication of thought and by easy transportation of people and goods.

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.