I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IITrue patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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I should like to be a horse.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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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.
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
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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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For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God’s love, as we strive daily to become better people.
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[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.
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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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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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Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.
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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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