Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim:

So I really feel this morning that every single person that has the slightest thing to do with this hospital, whether he was signing the bill that made the appropriations possible, or whether he is one of the men that smoothed out the…

We will not be controlled by others--we will not be regimented.

We are, of course, as a nation, dedicated to peace.

I would like also to thank those people--the men that are putting this thing up, and taking pride in making sure that the doctors are not going to be stopped by the light suddenly going out, the plumbing going wrong, something happening to…

We must have nothing to do with controlling it.

If each of you is lucky, you own about 60 years.

Of all religious concepts, this belief in the infinite worth of the individual is beyond doubt among the most important.

The fact that so many stubborn problems have been resolved through patience and forbearance surely justifies our hope.

They have launched a venture in freedom unparalleled in man's struggle over the ages.

Now, many individuals through the ages have attempted, in a sentence, to define exactly what is an institution of learning.

Governor Lodge, ladies and gentlemen: After that introduction, my natural question is, Well, whose birthday is this, anyway?