It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IICowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.
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In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy.
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You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else.
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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
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