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.
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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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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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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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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The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.
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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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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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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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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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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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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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