I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThink 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.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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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 been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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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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You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
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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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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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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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This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.
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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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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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