No Retreat.
In a time of testing, we cannot find security by abandoning our commitments and retreating within our borders. If we were to leave these vicious attackers alone, they would not leave us alone. They would simply move the battlefield to our own shores.
There is no peace in retreat.
And there is no honor in retreat.
By allowing radical Islam to work its will, by leaving an assaulted world to fend for itself, we would signal to all that we no longer believe in our own ideals or even in our own courage.
But our enemies and our friends can be certain: The United States will not retreat from the world, and we will never surrender to evil.
(APPLAUSE)
America rejects the false comfort of isolationism. We are the nation that saved liberty in Europe, and liberated death camps, and helped raise up democracies and faced down an evil empire.
Once again, we accept the call of history to deliver the oppressed and move this world toward peace.
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