Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
QUEEN ELIZABETH III can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
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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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The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.
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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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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 have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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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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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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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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