In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IILike all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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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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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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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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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
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1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.
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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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I have to be seen to be believed.
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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