Eisenhower: “We must continue to strengthen the unity of the free world to resist Communist aggression.”

For over six decades we have worked together to create and maintain strong democratic institutions.

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.

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.