Eisenhower: “A skilled American farm worker today produces food and clothing for eighteen other Americans.”

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.

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.

I find and declare that adjustments must be made in the imports of crude oil and unfinished oils for overestimates and underestimates of total demand.