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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More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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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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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 perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.
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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You’d better answer that. It could be someone important.
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When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
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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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The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally.
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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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