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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly. — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share
