Eisenhower: “There are certain areas in the United States, as you well know, where a man could believe in the general political field…”

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.

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

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.