Eisenhower: “We know—and all the world constantly reminds us—that the future well-being of humanity depends directly upon America’s…”

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

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

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

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.