Eisenhower: “The goals of our two peoples - the spiritual and material welfare of the individual, a free society dedicated to peace…”

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

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.