Eisenhower: “I am not going to participate in local contests.”

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.

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.

My heart will always be filled with admiration for you.