Eisenhower: “My friends, to join you in so important a ceremony--here in the heart of the Pacific Northwest--is indeed a privilege.”

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

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.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.