True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
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More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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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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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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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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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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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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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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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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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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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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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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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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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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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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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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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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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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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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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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