WASHINGTON, May 7 — President Bush welcomed Queen Elizabeth II to the White House today with remarks that celebrated the values that have bound the United States and Britain across the Atlantic and across the centuries.

“Our two nations hold fundamental values in common,” Mr. Bush said. “We honor our traditions and our shared history. We recognize that the strongest societies respect the rights and dignity of the individual. We understand and accept the burdens of global leadership, and we have built our special relationship on the surest foundations: our deep and abiding love of liberty.”

“Today our two nations are defending liberty against tyranny and terror,” Mr. Bush said on the White House South Lawn amid Stars and Stripes and Union Jacks. “We’re resisting those who murder the innocent to advance a hateful ideology, whether they kill in New York or London or Kabul or Baghdad. American and British forces are staying on the offense against the extremists and terrorists.”

Queen Elizabeth, nearing the end of her fifth visit to the former colonies, said she and her husband, Prince Philip, were happy to be at the White House again.