Eisenhower: “Paul I, King of the Hellenes, has made a personal contribution of the greatest importance to the warm friendship between…”

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.

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

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.