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.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.