Eisenhower: “A disaster of nature's making came to aggravate the trouble.”

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

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.

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.