Eisenhower: “We are determined to do everything we can to put into effect sound principles of management in the conduct of the…”

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

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

I feel now it would be futile for me to attempt anything else in the way of words.

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.