Eisenhower: “Executive Order No. 10266 of June 30, 1951, entitled 'Suspension of Certain Provisions of the Officer Personnel Act of…”

My heart will always be filled with admiration for you.

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.

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.