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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