Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIIt is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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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 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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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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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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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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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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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
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The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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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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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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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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