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Eisenhower's Farewell Address: Section V Summary

Our Children Are Our Future. Let's Not Ruin It for Them, Please

  • Briefly, Ike reminds us that there is a future coming, with new people who would like to live decent and prosperous lives.
  • We need to restrain our spending and consumption. We can't just live for the moment and plunder our children's future.
  • We shouldn't use up all the resources all at once. How about saving some for our children, so they're not paying off the debt that we'll undoubtedly run up.
  • They won't have a healthy democracy without a healthy economy.