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 IIWork is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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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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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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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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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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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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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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Football’s a difficult business and aren’t they prima donnas. But it’s a wonderful game.
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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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It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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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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