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. — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains. — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all. — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
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… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly. — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
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