Eisenhower: “I should like to have stayed here as many days as I have hours.”

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

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

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

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