Eisenhower: “I have a strong liking for a man when he finds anything wrong in government he doesn't fool around but cleans it up…”

I feel now it would be futile for me to attempt anything else in the way of words.

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.

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

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.