Eisenhower: “I have frequently talked about minimum wages to various people, but no recommendation has ever reached me of that kind.”

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.

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.