Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.

We've been a free people living under the law, with faith in our Maker and in our future. I've said before that the most sublime picture in American history is of George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. That image personifies a people who know that it's not enough to depend on our own courage and goodness; we must also seek help from God, our Father and Preserver.

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.