If Washington and Lincoln had not had in them the whipcord fibre of moral and mental strength, the soul that steels itself to endure disaster unshaken and with grim resolve to wrest victory from defeat, then the one could not have founded, nor the other preserved, our mighty Federal Union.
Roosevelt attributes the founding and preservation of the Federal Union to the moral and mental strength of Washington and Lincoln.
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