Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIMy husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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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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True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. …
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The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie.
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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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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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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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
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Think what we would have missed if we had never … used a mobile phone or surfed the Net — or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
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