We know that so long as unity in freedom is withheld from the German people by those who seek to impose an alien and totalitarian system on a part of your nation there can be no permanent security in Europe.
Message to President Heuss of Germany on the Anniversary of the Demonstration for Freedom in the Soviet Zone.
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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.
For over six decades we have worked together to create and maintain strong democratic institutions.
I feel now it would be futile for me to attempt anything else in the way of words.
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