Ike was scared of the “military/industrial complex.” He should have been afraid of the bureaucrats who create problems and the private companies who then get paid the tribute to fix them.
I always see the part about the “military/industrial complex” highlighted but he also had something else to say that nobody talks about much.
“We . . . must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”