Eisenhower: “The home is the basis of our civilization.”

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.

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