Eisenhower: “I am proceeding with my associates as strongly and as earnestly and as thoroughly as I can in that direction.”

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

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.

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

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.