Eisenhower: “This legislation will do much to vouchsafe to the American people and the free world the gains which will accrue from…”

We are both members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an alliance that seeks only security and peace.

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.

People must meet and understand other people, and so doing make it ever more difficult for governments, responding to false prides or even worse, personal ambitions, to sustain dictatorships.