While our Navy and our airplanes and our guns and our ships may be our first line of defense, it is still clear that way down at the bottom, underlying them all, giving them their strength, sustenance and power, are the spirit and morale of a free people.
He asserts that the spirit and morale of the people are foundational to the nation's defense capabilities.
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